“One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of fina...” — Ben Bernanke Quote

“One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.”

“Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.”

“Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.”

“I felt I had to choose between being pretty or smart or athletic, and stick to it because if you try to do more than one, you have nowhere to belong. Then music was a boy's world and a lot of times men assumed I didn't know what I was doing because I was young and female.”

“I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.”

“In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business.”