Thank you, Chairman Bernanke, for your service to our country during a time of great economic turmoil.
just with respect to that, those monetary decisions that created or saved between 600,000 and 700,000 jobs, is that correct?
it would be a mistake for, in your view, for the Congress to use the debt ceiling as a, quote, Bargaining chip.
Let's not gamble with the full faith and credit of our nation; that would be a recipe for financial and economic chaos.
Let me ask you a quick question on the fiscal policy, because I think we all agree that the Congress should act now to put in place a plan t...
you wrote to the Speaker of the House on January 6th of this year indicating that your assessment would be that that would add $230 billion ...
I do think there's room for that.
So based on those figures, it sounds like almost the reverse of the normal seasonal flu in terms of age impact?
I hope that you will monitor very closely the local impacts and in some ways hold people accountable.
It seems to me we should have some kind of grading system or some kind of way to identify who is responding adequately.
Right. Now, if our theory that one of the reasons elderly people aren't as severely impacted is because they have had earlier seasonal flus ...