Ben Bernanke Quotes
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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.
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The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
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There's always the possibility that, if there's sufficient uncertainty that we may choose to pause simply to gain more information, to learn better what the true risks are and how the economy's actually evolving.
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Of course, a decision to take no action at a particular meeting does not preclude action at subsequent meetings.
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In fact, the world needs more nerds.
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We benefit from foreign direct investment. Many Americans are employed by foreign companies with plants in the United States, for example in the automobile industry. So, trade is a two way street. I think, it is important to protect Americans who lose their jobs, or whose jobs come under pressure from international trade. But, I think, we need to be careful not to embrace economic isolationism.
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If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.
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The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.
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Providing quantitative guidance about the meaning of 'long-term price stability' could have several advantages, including further reducing public uncertainty about monetary policy and anchoring long-term inflation expectations even more effectively.
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The role of liquidity in systemic events provides yet another reason why, in the future, a more system wide or macroprudential approach to regulation is needed.
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Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.
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In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
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Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.
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Even if the economy recovers smartly for the rest of this year and the next, the ongoing slack in the economy may still lead to continuing disinflation.
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I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
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Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.
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For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.
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Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the prov.
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Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.
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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.
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We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.
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The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.