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So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think that there is someone with sound judgement at the controls.

Quote by Martin Feldstein

The decline of the overvalued dollar in the 1980s also had no adverse effect on economic activity in the United States.

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The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.

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The household saving rate has been falling since the early 1990s, declining from 7 percent in 1990 to just 2.4 percent in 2002.

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The key to the economy's strength in 2004 and 2005 was that household saving declined dramatically while the price of oil rose.

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The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

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The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

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The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

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Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

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To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.

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Today's macroeconomic problems require attention to more fundamental forces of individual incentives and institutional rigidities.

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Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

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We also do not understand why long-term rates have not increased while the Federal Reserve has been raising short-term rates.

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We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

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We do not understand the links between asset prices, monetary policy, and aggregate demand. We do not understand speculative markets adequately.

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We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

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Why has this improvement in inflation and in the business cycle occurred? I think the answer is better monetary policy, better central banking.

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With sound monetary policy, the increases in import prices are offset by lower inflation for domestically produced goods and services.

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Ricky Martin, I ran into him in a restaurant in Paris. He sent a note over, very politely, and said, Could I come over and sing a song on this album?

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After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.

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