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Fostering transparency and accountability at the Federal Reserve was one of my principal objectives when I became Chairman in February 2006.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Accountability Became Chairman February Federal Federal Reserve Fostering Objectives Principal Reserve Transparency

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The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and for what purposes those tools are being used.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Able Accountability Banks Being Being Used Central Democratic Federal Federal Reserve How Like Other Powerful Public Purposes Requires Reserve See Those Tools Used

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At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve the deployment of public funds.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: About Actions Bank Basic Central Central Bank Clear Deployment Funds Involve Level Most Must Open Operations Particularly Public

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Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Bank Central Central Bank Economic Economic Growth Growth Long Long Run Most Outside Policies Province Robust Run Support

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The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy's problems on its own.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Cannot Economy Federal Federal Reserve Own Problems Reserve Solve

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

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Course Economic Information Must Necessarily New Revised Thus

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The actions taken by central banks and other authorities to stabilize a panic in the short run can work against stability in the long run if investors and firms infer from those actions that they will never bear the full consequences of excessive risk-taking.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Actions Against Authorities Banks Bear Central Consequences Excessive Full Infer Investors Long Long Run Never Other Panic Risk-Taking Run Short Stability Stabilize Taken Those Will Work

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Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Bear Believe Costs Debt Discipline Distress Equity Event Extent Hazard Limit Market Moral Only Will

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In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Accounting Consumption Economic Focused Income National Policymakers Tradition Variables Wealth

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There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Automatic Hits Increase Interest Rate Unemployment Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: December 13th, 1953

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