I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.
Ben BernankeThe American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
Ben BernankeThe economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
Ben BernankeThe amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
Ben BernankeThe U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.
Ben Bernanke