Ben Bernanke Quotes

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

Fundamentals make the market.

Predicting the market is always tough.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

I think what you've seen them do recently in the markets is what most of us learn doesn't ultimately work. But I think everyone has to figure that on their own.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

My father worked at the Grain Exchange.

Just being able to trade financial commodities is a serious limitation because financial commodities represent only a tiny fraction of the reality of the real commodity exposure picture. We need to be active in the underlying physical commodity markets in order to understand and make prices.

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'