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There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

~Adam Mckay

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If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'

~Alan Greenspan

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The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

~Andrew Tobias

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Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

~Ben Bernanke

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All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

~Ben Bernanke

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

~Ben Bernanke

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The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.

~Ben Bernanke

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If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

~Ben Bernanke

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There are a number of institutions globally where the Federal Reserve typically leads the U.S. effort to work with financial regulators from other countries, and we try to, to the extent possible, establish international standards for how - the amount of capital a bank should hold, for example, or how much.

~Ben Bernanke

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