373 Quotes by Ben Bernanke

Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits.

Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.

To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.

In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is really central to success.

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.

History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.