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¡Ándale Pues! Get on with advancing Hispanic prosperity through education
Remarks at the Hispanic Economic Experience Conference, Dallas, Texas, June 16, 2011 ; "In Texas, as anywhere else in the United States and in all capitalist societies, "you earn what you learn." Every study known to man, and plain common sense, tells you that income is directly correlated to educational attainment."
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An economic overview: what's next? remembering Carol Reed, Aesop's Fable, Kenneth Arrow and Thomas Dewey
Remarks before the Rotary Club of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, July 13, 2011 ; "We are being challenged as the place to invest job-creating capital. Our fiscal and regulatory authorities do not operate in a vacuum; we live in a globalized, interconnected world where money is free to go to wherever it earns the best return. In their solution to the debt crisis, our political leaders must develop an entirely new structure of incentives for private businesses and investors to put their money to work creating jobs here at home."
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Globalization and Texas
Remarks before The Houston Forum, Houston, Texas, October 19, 2005
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President's perspective
Protectionism will undercut any temporary benefits it provides with long-term damage and destruction.
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Digits and widgets (with reference to a wise mother, the Golden Book Encyclopedia, Winston Churchill and Hunter Lawrence)
"In the world of "superfine processes" of the Knowledge Age, digits are the new widgets. The brain is to the Knowledge Age and the mastery of digits what the engine was to the Manufacturing Age and the management of widgets. Education is the steam and the oil and the gas that propel that engine. The speed at which we move our economy forward from this point onward will depend on how well we educate our children." ; Remarks before the Austin Chamber of Commerce's 4th Annual State of Education in Austin Conference; Austin, Texas; December 8, 2009.
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Risks to sustained economic recovery (with lessons learned from Winston Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt)
"If the Congress is not careful and ends up where it is going in tampering with the independence of the Federal Reserve, it will indeed lead us down the path to the politicization of the central bank of the world's greatest economy, putting the United States on a road that leads directly to economic ruin." ; Remarks before the Annual Meeting of the Waco Business League, Waco, Texas, January 12, 2010.
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Vignettes of Dallas Fed history on the eve of our centennial (with grateful reference to George Dealey and a tip of the hat to Ebby Halliday, W.F. Ramsey, and Fed and Ginger)>
Remarks before the Dallas Historical Society, Dallas, TX, June 26, 2012 ; "This is probably the only Reserve Bank that owes its location to the local newspaper?in our case, the Dallas Morning News."
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Of moose and men (with no reference to Steinbeck)
Remarks before the National Association for Business Economics, Dallas, Texas, September 12, 2011 ; "It is incumbent on the Fed and other bank regulators to reduce the regulatory burdens that are inhibiting indeed, overwhelming community bankers whose business it is to lend to creditworthy small businesses."
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Commencement address at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Remarks at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center commencement, Dallas, Texas, June 2, 2007 ; "...True success comes to those who best put their talents in context and who connect a substantial intellect to an equally developed emotional capacity. Those of us who lead cerebral lives must constantly strive to elevate our 'people skills' to a level equal to our intellectual skills."
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Texas: what makes us exceptional? Where are we vulnerable?
Remarks before the 2010 Pre-Session Legislative Conference, Austin, Texas, December, 2010 ; "With each passing year, Texas has consistently outperformed the rest of the nation in growing economic prosperity. Over the past three especially difficult years, the Texas economy has outperformed all other states, except for those tiny ones whose populations would not aggregate to the size of any of our major cities."