Ben Bernanke Quotes About Inflation

Quotes about: Inflation

• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  Ben Bernanke

  Business, Support, Principles

  "Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here". Ben Bernanke's Remarks Before the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. November 21, 2002.

• The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

  Ben Bernanke

  Risk, Demand, Path

  Ben Bernanke's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

• Inflation is certainly low and stable and, measured in unemployment and labour-market slack, the economy has made a lot of progress. The pace of growth is disappointingly slow, mostly because productivity growth has been very slow, which is not really something amenable to monetary policy. It comes from changes in technology, changes in worker skills and a variety of other things, but not monetary policy, in particular.

  Ben Bernanke

  Technology, Growth, Progress

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy - especially when the economy is struggling.

  Ben Bernanke

  Struggle, Risk, Economy

  "Ben Bernanke’s Secret Code" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. November 16, 2010.

• The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

  Ben Bernanke

  Fighting, Bankers, Benefits

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