Ben Bernanke actually said...

I have always said... you do not want to just do short-run stuff and ignore the long-run.

Bernanke emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to economic policy.

06/06/2012

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the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

The economy needed help from Congress--if not from additional spending (on roads and bridges for example), then at least in areas such as re...

the unemployment rate right now is not a very good measure by itself of the economy.

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