"As I sit at the FOMC table, I continue to fret more about inflation than I do about growth. While I am well aware of the risks to economic growth, the history of inverted yield curves, and the ever present possibility of exogenous shocks in a politically hazardous world, the 'balance of risk,'...

Remarks before the Texas A&M Retailing Summit, Dallas, Texas, October 7, 2011 ; "We have filled the gas tanks of the economy with affordable liquidity. What is needed now is for employers to confidently step on the pedal and engage the transmission that will use that fuel to move the great...

comments on the outlook for the U.S. economy and monetary policy at the International Monetary Conference, Washington, D.C., June 5, 2006

a speech at a Finance Committee luncheon of the Executives' Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Address before AAIM Management Association, St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 20, 2004

Presentation to the AAIM Management Association, St. Louis, Mo. May 11, 2005

Presentation to the Banque de France International Symposium on Globalisation, Inflation and Monetary Policy (Paris, France, March 7, 2008)

The recent softness in the economic data looks much more like a bump in the road of what we already thought would be a gradual recovery, rather than a swerve into the ditch. ; Presentation to community leaders' luncheon, Portland, Oregon, July 28, 2010

"As I sit at the FOMC table, I continue to fret more about inflation than I do about growth. While I am well aware of the risks to economic growth, the history of inverted yield curves, and the ever present possibility of exogenous shocks in a politically hazardous world, the 'balance of risk,'...

Presentation to Financial Executives International, San Francisco, CA, April 15, 2010