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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 41 quotes by Ben Bernanke Ben Shalom Bernanke (/bərˈnæŋki/ bər-NANG-kee; born December 13, 1953) is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served two terms as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States from 2006 to 2014. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis. Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton... Read full biography of Ben Bernanke → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis... → 0 The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. 0 The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase... → 0 It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable. 0 If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. 0 In fact, the world needs more nerds. 0 The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all... → 0 Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the... → 0 It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting. 0 It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent. 0 Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of... → 0 The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and... → 0 I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you... → 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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