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Ben Bernanke

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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.


— Ben Bernanke


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Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.


— Ben Bernanke


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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.


— Ben Bernanke


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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.


— Ben Bernanke


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It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.


— Ben Bernanke


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It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.


— Ben Bernanke


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Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.


— Ben Bernanke


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Monetary policy is not a panacea.


— Ben Bernanke


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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


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The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.


— Ben Bernanke


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Bernanke's mother gave up her job as a school teacher when her son was born and worked at the family drug store. Bernanke also pointed out that deficit reduction will necessarily consist of either raising taxes cutting entitlement payments and other government spending or some combination of both. Starr Center for Applied Economics.

Bush's Council of Economic Advisers before President Bush appointed him on February 1 2006 to be chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. From 2002 until 2005 he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System proposed the Bernanke Doctrine and first discussed "the Great Moderation"—the theory that traditional business cycles have declined in volatility in recent decades through structural changes that have occurred in the international economy particularly increases in the economic stability of developing nations diminishing the influence of macroeconomic (monetary and fiscal) policy. Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman on January 28 2010 after being re-nominated by President Barack Obama.

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