Ben Bernanke: “The economy needed help from Congress--if not from additional spending (on roads and bridges for example), then at least…”

Our mission as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability; to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment; and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well…

It is also important, of course, for community banks to be well-capitalized so that they can continue to lend during difficult periods.

You have to have long-term structural changes in the entitlement programs.

The potential of Artificial Intelligence is enormous, and so is the range of outcomes. How that potential plays out will depend, in part, on the institutions we build it around.