Quotes About Ben Bernanke

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

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

I have spoken about deficits, and I think deficits are important because they address broad economic and financial stability. We need to talk about that.

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.

Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession. Ben Bernanke January 10, 2008