Ben Bernanke Current Quotations

In any given month, a large number of workers are being hired or are leaving their current jobs, illustrating the dynamism of the U.S. labor market.

The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'

Our assessment currently is that the risks to inflation are perhaps the more significant at the moment, and we need to address that.

So far, the actual actions taken have been relatively modest, but there is some hope, I think, that, going forward, these actions will advance further and we will see more progress in the current account.

I think policy is currently quite accommodative. I think it can remain quite accommodative for a while to come,