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Ben Bernanke (Economist)

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
— Ben Bernanke art
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
— Ben Bernanke man
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
— Ben Bernanke history
In fact, the world needs more nerds.
— Ben Bernanke world
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
— Ben Bernanke men
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 work
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 led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
— Ben Bernanke business
It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.
— Ben Bernanke success
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
— Ben Bernanke men
It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
— Ben Bernanke man
A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
— Ben Bernanke people
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
— Ben Bernanke you
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 growth
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 on Social Security and Medicare.
— Ben Bernanke dead
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 the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
— Ben Bernanke people
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 economy going.
— Ben Bernanke art
Monetary policy is not a panacea.
— Ben Bernanke
I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
— Ben Bernanke art
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
— Ben Bernanke
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
— Ben Bernanke men
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
— Ben Bernanke men
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
— Ben Bernanke you
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
— Ben Bernanke political
The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.
— Ben Bernanke sin
The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
— Ben Bernanke time
I will make continuity with the policies and policy strategies of the Greenspan Fed a top priority,
— Ben Bernanke will

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