Ben Bernanke Quotes
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At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.
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In fact, the world needs more nerds.
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The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
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Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.
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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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It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
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These inflation effects should fade even if energy prices remain elevated, so long as monetary policy keeps inflation expectations well-anchored.
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Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.
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To return to levels consistent with price stability in coming quarters.
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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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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
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Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.
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In any given month, a large number of workers are being hired or are leaving their current jobs, illustrating the dynamism of the U.S. labor market.
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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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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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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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The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
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So far, the effects appear to be relatively modest on growth.
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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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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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We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.
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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.
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To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.
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...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals.