I think those things are extremely important.
What we need is a strategy which addresses the long-run sustainability issues.
Congress is in charge here, not the Federal Reserve.
The best way to address the problem, at least in the near term, would be to reform the way those numbers were collected so that the LIBOR ra...
Our mandate tells us to do the best we can for employment and price stability, and we will continue to do that.
If the fiscal cliff is allowed to happen, it would probably knock the recovery back into a recession and cost a lot of jobs.
It would be better to make that plan soon but to have the effects come in more gradually.
I think it is extremely important that we address too big to fail, and this is one way to make banks take into account that their own size d...
It would reduce a lot of the uncertainty that we see. It would address a very important problem, and it would show the ability of our politi...
I think the choice is between spending and taxes, and the mix and the kinds of taxes and so on, I think that is really a congressional respo...
It is important for us as a Nation to create a fiscal policy that achieves both the short-term and long-term objectives.