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The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Ben Bernanke

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Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.