Ben Bernanke Quotes
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I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.
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If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
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I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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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 Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals.
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The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.
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The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
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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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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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I am going to begin now a practice of not making recommendations on specific tax and spending proposals.
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Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
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The Federal Reserve has never suffered any losses in the course of its normal lending to banks and, now, to primary dealers.
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A forecast about the future evolution of policy, not an unconditional commitment.
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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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Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.
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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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I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
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We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.
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Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.
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When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.
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Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.
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The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
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There are two possible mistakes: One is to go on too long, and one is not to go on long enough. And, it's a very difficult balancing act.
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Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.