Ben Bernanke Quotes
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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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It's been a resilient economy, it's responded well and job creation has proceeded apace.
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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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...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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We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
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Not all information is beneficial.
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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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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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Under a paper-money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and hence positive inflation.
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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.'
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Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.
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These are issues that we are going to have to address, because they are significant.
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Until the job market improves, this recovery will not feel like a recovery to most Americans.
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The Fed's policy choices can always be debated, but the quality and commitment of the Federal Reserve as a public institution is second to none, and I am proud to lead it.
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The world has a great deal more to offer than money.
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History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
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Thus far, at least, the growth effects of energy price increases appear relatively modest.
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Unfortunately there's nothing, really, that can be done that's going to affect energy prices or gasoline prices in the very short run.
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The economy is much more energy efficient today than it was in the 1970s when energy shocks contributed to share slowdowns.
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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.
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In all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly eight and a half million jobs that were lost nationwide over 2008 and 2009.
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For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.
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The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.