Ben S Bernanke: Early childhood education Speech by Mr Ben S Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Children’s Defense Fund National Conference (via pre-recorded video), Cincinnati, Ohio, 24 July 2012. *  *  *  Thank you very much for the opportunity to address you today.
I'm especially pleased as an economist and policymaker to discuss the importance of education to the success of our economy. At the Federal Reserve we spend a lot of time looking at economic data, such as production and employment.