If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God! '

Ben Bernanke
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More Quotes By Ben Bernanke
  1. In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

  2. Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.

  3. In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

  4. The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis substantial fiscal resources were necessary.

  5. Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.

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