Bernanke has faced a tough time in Congressional sessions for failing to anticipate the depth of the downturn, although in a speech in Jackson Hole last week he insisted policymakers in the US and elsewhere had responded with "speed and force".
"In this episode, by contrast, policymakers in the United States and around the globe responded with speed and force to arrest a rapidly deteriorating and dangerous situation".
From Guam, the marines are supposed to be able to respond with lightning speed to an array of regional emergencies.
The United States Ambassador to Japan, Howard H. Baker Jr., said today that Washington could respond with surprising speed to engage with North Korea if that country took verifiable steps to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
Britain outside the EU would be less able to respond with the speed and strength we need to tackle complex and growing cross-border threats to all our communities.
For the majority of those who rent apartments in New York City, the landlord is simply the person to whom they make out a monthly check, a faceless being who races to the bank with that check — but doesn't always respond with similar speed when there's a problem with the boiler.
Such a program would renew the concerns of critics, including some Fed officials and many Republican politicians, that its efforts to spur growth will impede its ability to respond with necessary speed and force when the pace of inflation begins to rise.
An alternative approach with the following features is required: ability to interpret and use the vast quantities of process data, respond with high speed to process inputs, mapping capability/pattern recognition, adaptivity, learn and capture knowledge, and fault tolerant and robust.
They respond with unparalleled speed.
