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Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

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The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

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There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

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Financial crises require governments.

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Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

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The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

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The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

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As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

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Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.

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The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: August 18th, 1961

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