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In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
— Ben Bernanke
Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
— Ben Bernanke
Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
— Ben Bernanke
The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
— Ben Bernanke
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.
— Ben Bernanke
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,
— Ben Bernanke
The Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
— Ben Bernanke
While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.
— Ben Bernanke
Actually, I'm a Republican.
— Ben Bernanke
I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.
— Ben Bernanke
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.
— Ben Bernanke
There are limits to monetary policy.
— Ben Bernanke
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
— Ben Bernanke
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
— Ben Bernanke
Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
— Ben Bernanke
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
— Ben Bernanke
Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits.
— Ben Bernanke
The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
— Ben Bernanke
There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.
— Ben Bernanke
Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.
— Ben Bernanke
In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.
— Ben Bernanke
The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
— Ben Bernanke
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
— Ben Bernanke
The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers.
— Ben Bernanke
Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.
— Ben Bernanke
Monetary policy is not a panacea.
— Ben Bernanke
The Fed is totally open.
— Ben Bernanke
A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.
— Ben Bernanke
Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
— Ben Bernanke
Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports of crude oil and petroleum products.
— Ben Bernanke
A little humility never hurts.
— Ben Bernanke
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
— Ben Bernanke
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
— Ben Bernanke
I don't fully understand movements in the gold price
— Ben Bernanke
No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.
— Ben Bernanke
Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.
— Ben Bernanke
Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.
— Ben Bernanke
It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
— Ben Bernanke
Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
— Ben Bernanke
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
— Ben Bernanke
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.
— Ben Bernanke
Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy.
— Ben Bernanke
To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.
— Ben Bernanke
To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.
— Ben Bernanke
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
— Ben Bernanke
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
— Ben Bernanke
In the past, Federal Reserve chairmen have not generally gone directly to the public.
— Ben Bernanke
Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.
— Ben Bernanke
The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.
— Ben Bernanke
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
— Ben Bernanke
Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites.
— Ben Bernanke
If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.
— Ben Bernanke
If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
— Ben Bernanke
No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
— Ben Bernanke
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.
— Ben Bernanke
China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
— Ben Bernanke
The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
— Ben Bernanke
I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble,
— Ben Bernanke
In fact, the world needs more nerds.
— Ben Bernanke
Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
— Ben Bernanke
Chairman Greenspan is, of course, a master.
— Ben Bernanke
For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.
— Ben Bernanke
[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations Promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.
— Ben Bernanke
Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy - especially when the economy is struggling.
— Ben Bernanke
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
— Ben Bernanke
If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
— Ben Bernanke
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
— Ben Bernanke
As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.
— Ben Bernanke
The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
— Ben Bernanke
The Fed's independence is critical.
— Ben Bernanke
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
— Ben Bernanke
We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
— Ben Bernanke
Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
— Ben Bernanke
Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
— Ben Bernanke
History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
— Ben Bernanke
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.
— Ben Bernanke
One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.
— Ben Bernanke
Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.
— Ben Bernanke
The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
— Ben Bernanke
I would argue that no financial instrument counted as regulatory capital should be allowed to receive any protection from losses.
— Ben Bernanke
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.
— Ben Bernanke
Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
— Ben Bernanke
The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
— Ben Bernanke