373 Quotes by Ben Bernanke

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

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.

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.

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.

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.

Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

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.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.