A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

- Ben Bernanke

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and le…

- Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

- Ben Bernanke

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, par…

- Ben Bernanke

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

- Ben Bernanke

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and th…

- Ben Bernanke

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars …

- Ben Bernanke

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

- Ben Bernanke

I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.

- Ben Bernanke