Ben S Bernanke: MIT 2006 commencement address Remarks by Ben S Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006 commencement, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 9 June 2006.
*  *  *  President Hockfield, members of the faculty, alumni, families and friends of graduates, and, especially, members of the 2006 graduating class: I am honored to speak at the 140th commencement exercises of this distinguished institution. It is wonderful to be back at MIT. I graduated from the Institute with a Ph.D. in economics in 1979.