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Join the roomBen Shalom Bernanke é um economista americano que serviu como o 14º chairman do Federal Reserve de 2006 a 2014. Após deixar o Federal Reserve, foi nomeado distinguished fellow na Brookings Institution. Durante seu mandato como chairman, Bernanke supervisionou a resposta do Federal Reserve à crise financeira de 2008, pela qual foi nomeado a Time Person of the Year de 2009. Antes de se tornar chairman do Federal Reserve, Bernanke foi professor titular na Princeton University e chefiou o Department of Economics de 1996 a setembro de 2002, quando entrou em licença para serviço público. Bernanke recebeu o Prêmio Nobel Memorial de Ciências Econômicas de 2022, juntamente com Douglas Diamond e Philip H. Dybvig, "por pesquisas sobre bancos e crises financeiras", mais especificamente por sua análise da Grande Depressão.
“The 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.”
“Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.”
“House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals, including robust growth in jobs and incomes, low mortgage rates, steady rates of household formation, and factors that limit the expansion of housing supply in some areas.”
“To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.”
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