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It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

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

The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches...

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

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.

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.

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

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