373 Quotes by Ben Bernanke

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

High energy prices are burdening household budgets and raising production costs, and continued increases would at some point restrain economic growth.

Those high oil prices are a burden on U.S. families, on firms' production costs. But the good news is that at least so far the U.S. economy has not been slowed by the high energy prices.

can account for the bulk of the recent increase in the real price of gold.

The best approach here if at all possible is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset price bubble bursts in the future.

Unfortunately there's nothing, really, that can be done that's going to affect energy prices or gasoline prices in the very short run.

the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.

The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.