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(RTTNews) - The Federal Reserve will consider further support for the sluggish U.S. economy at a two-day meeting in September, but has not committed to a third round of quantitative easing, the nation's top central banker said Friday in a highly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Addressing a select group of central bankers and top economists at the Fed's annual retreat, Bernanke made no suggestion that the U.S. economy was on the verge of a double-dip recession, predicting that the recovery will pick up after a sluggish first half of 2011.

He warned that Fed policy should not be viewed as a cure-all for the ailing economy, but assured that the central bank stands ready to help if the economy deteriorates, Bernanke assured.

Bernanke offered no details about the measures that may be on the table at its September rate-setting meeting, which has been extended from a one-day meeting to a two-day meeting.  

He said the Fed discussed a range of tools at its August meeting.  At the conclusion of the meeting, the Fed voted to pledge exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate at least through mid-2013.

The Fed chief sounded a hopeful tone in predicting that falling energy prices will reduce the cost pressures facing businesses and help increase household purchasing power.

Bernanke chalked up some of the nation's anemic economic growth in the first half to temporary factors such as soaring commodities prices and the Japanese disasters, but acknowledged today that more "persistent" factors have also been at work.

"Economic growth has for the most part been at rates insufficient to achieve sustained reductions in unemployment, which has recently been fluctuating a bit above 9 percent," Bernanke said.

Bernanke called on Congress to resist austerity measures in the short-term, warning that big spending cuts will threaten the fragile recovery.

However, looking further out, Bernanke urged that fiscal policy must be placed on a sustainable path that ensures that debt relative to national income is at least stable or, preferably, declining over time.

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