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Remarks Before CERAWeek, Houston, Texas, February 9, 2009. ; "Our senators and congressmen and -women must find a way to give our economic engine an activating short-term jolt without encumbering or disincentivizing the entrepreneurial dynamic that has made for the long-term economic miracle...
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Remarks before the 125th Annual Convention of the Texas Bankers Association, San Antonio, Texas, May 15, 2009 ; "The most recent reports indicate that job losses may be slowing; trucking companies--a group often looked to as a leading indicator--report a slight pickup in sales; purchasing...
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Remarks before the Ninth Annual R.I.S.E. (Redefining Investment Strategy Education) Forum Dayton, Ohio, March 26, 2009 ; "Here is a take-home quote from Charles Mackay's classic tome "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", written in 1841: 'Men think in herds...[and] they go...
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"Despite the efforts of the Fed, the hope that comes with a new presidency, and what will hopefully be responsible and carefully calibrated fiscal initiatives for the Congress, I believe we have an epic challenge ahead of us. We are navigating the mother of all financial storms. We will...
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"The earnest men and women who make up the FOMC have no intention of squandering the bedrock capital of a central bank: the confidence the public places in our hands to keep inflation at bay while we work to bolster economic growth and restore the financial system." ; Remarks before the Progress...
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Remarks before Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China, April 17, 2009. ; "The Federal Reserve is in the process of acquiring the tools to short-circuit any inflationary consequences of its balance sheet growth."
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Remarks before the 2009 Global Supply Chain Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, March 4, 2009. ; "If, in the process of doing what is right and proper by confining its activity to its singular purpose, the Federal Reserve becomes a 'nuisance,' so be it. The Fed under Paul Volcker's leadership was...
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Remarks before the Senior Delegates' Roundtable of the Fixed Income Forum, Carlsbad, California, July 23, 2009. ; "A lot of former negatives are being eliminated. We are seeing changes from negative impulses to slightly positive ones. This accentuates the positive in the aggregate. We probably...
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Remarks before the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, March 30, 2010 ; "Generally, the data indicate that we will move down the field this year at about a 3 percent clip. It is less than we had grown accustomed to in the heyday before the crisis, and it may not...
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Remarks at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 23, 2009. ; "It may seem like the stuff of the wildest dreams to imagine our getting ourselves out from our current nightmarish predicament. But I believe we can and we will. We are Americans. I believe...
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