Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run,… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I don't think central banks are going to give up fiat currency anytime in my lifetime. — Brad Garlinghouse Copy Share Image
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Central Bank stimulus: easy money, a false cure that never solves the root causes, only suppresses symptoms, prolonging the agony.” — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
Monetary policy transmission encompasses the whole continuum of interest rates; of course, the central bank only determines the overnight policy rate. — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
The role of monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles by promoting steady inflation and healthy labor markets, but modern central… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
“Usually an upbeat affair, the BCA conference in 2006 proved disturbing. Harvard professor Niall Ferguson asked a strange question: Why hadn’t the… — Danielle DiMartino Booth Copy Share Image
Earnings don't move the overall market; it's the Federal Reserve Board... focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
People that's in power - the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally - they got influence over the messaging… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve and other central banks have adopted broad public policy objectives to guide the development and oversight of the payments… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Policy makers respond to economic distress by pursuing polices designed to improve the data. After a while, the data themselves may come… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“If anything, the unmistakable clues provided by the reports that highly intelligent and politically aware central bankers and Treasury officials became, as… — Bernard Connolly Copy Share Image
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The expansionary operations of the Second Bank of the United States, coupled with its laxity toward insisting on specie payment by the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that decisions made by the leading central banks do affect the global financial markets and, consequently, our situation. — Elvira Nabiullina Copy Share Image
As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through… — Elvira Nabiullina Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, a central bank must be clear and open about its actions and operations, particularly when they involve… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“THE Federal Reserve is “the most transparent central bank to my knowledge in the world,” claims its chairwoman, Janet Yellen.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Central Bank has a lot to handle and it is best not to interfere with its competence. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S. — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, '79, 33 years or so.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Opponents of central-bank intervention are right about one thing: monetary financing carries serious risks. In order to ensure that it is as… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
[When] the market is trying to get to terms with, first, lower global growth, particularly out of emerging markets and China. And,… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
I will say this: the central banks can actually support growth beyond a point. When there is no inflation, they can cut… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image