Ben Bernanke

Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as…

— Ben Bernanke

A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.

— Ben Bernanke

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might…

— Ben Bernanke

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment…

— Ben Bernanke

As we try to make the financial system safer, we must inevitably confront the problem of moral hazard.

— Ben Bernanke

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

— Ben Bernanke

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

— Ben Bernanke

In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes.

— Ben Bernanke

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue…

— Ben Bernanke

To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as…

— Ben Bernanke

The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall…

— Ben Bernanke

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills…

— Ben Bernanke

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor…

— Ben Bernanke

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic…

— Ben Bernanke

The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose…

— Ben Bernanke

There are a number of institutions globally where the Federal Reserve typically leads the U.S. effort to work with financial regulators from…

— Ben Bernanke

If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it…

— Ben Bernanke

The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers…

— Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that…

— Ben Bernanke

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

— Ben Bernanke

If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say,…

— Ben Bernanke

The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a…

— Ben Bernanke

Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and…

— Ben Bernanke

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…

— Ben Bernanke

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many…

— Ben Bernanke

...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our…

— Ben Bernanke

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

— Ben Bernanke

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

— Ben Bernanke

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly…

— Ben Bernanke

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in…

— Ben Bernanke

I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in…

— Ben Bernanke

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where…

— Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms…

— Ben Bernanke

Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of…

— Ben Bernanke

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

— Ben Bernanke

For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming…

— Ben Bernanke

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

— Ben Bernanke

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

— Ben Bernanke

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for…

— Ben Bernanke

Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times.

— Ben Bernanke