Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
Ben BernankeThe impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.
Ben BernankeThe lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
Ben BernankeI and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.
Ben Bernanke