373 Quotes by 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 U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost,

I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown.

The U.S. economy is in the midst of a strong and sustainable economic expansion.

I will make continuity with the policies and policy strategies of the Greenspan Fed a top priority,

After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.

A further jump in energy prices or a more pronounced reaction to those increases in prices that have already occurred could test the strength of the expansion,

Small businesses have played an important role in fueling past economic recoveries.

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

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.