Ben Bernanke

Growth in U.S. real imports slowed to about 3 percent in 2006, in part reflecting a drop in real terms in imports of crude oil and petroleum products.

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

Remember that physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.

History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.

If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.