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Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic ...

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Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy ...

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High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organ...

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Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would no...

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Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor for...

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If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on yo...

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Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the ext...

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Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas ...

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Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement -...

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In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept espe...

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In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good de...

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The Fed's independence is critical.

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

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when ...

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I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving.

Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their ...

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

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The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the gre...

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Because financially capable consumers ultimately contribute to a stable economic and financial syste...

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No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and...

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People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to P...

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When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues ...

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As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education h...

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Ben Bernanke

Economist

Born: 1953-12-13

Died: N/A

Ben Shalom Bernanke (born December 13, 1953) is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served two terms as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States from 2006 to 2014. During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve's response to the late-2000s financial crisis.|Before becoming Federal Reserve chairman, Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002, when he went on public service leave.More