"Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought……" — Ben Bernanke
"Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much."
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81 Quotes by Ben Bernanke
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The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system…
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
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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…
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Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a…
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed…
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Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Monetary policy is not a panacea.
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it…
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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other…
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If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain…
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Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an…
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It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and…
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More Choices Quotes
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and…
— Lance Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
— Darren Aronofsky
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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