The Federal Reserve ranks among the most transparent central banks. We publish a summary of our balance sheet every week. Our financial… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The best way that a central bank can support growth on a durable basis is to ensure inflation is low, stable -… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by… — Caroline Baum Copy Share Image
The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
People think what's in the US today is capitalism. It's not even close to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have a central bank, capitalism… — Jeff Berwick Copy Share Image
To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Global central banks are working hard to lift their economies through an aggressively easy monetary policy. The ECB [European Central Bank] and… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to… — James Grant Copy Share Image
Very deliberately, the central bankers have punished savers, pushing interest rates so low that any truly safe investment - and older people… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are… — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
No central banker would disagree with the proposition that inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon. Not one of them will disagree that… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In a mature economy like India's, which is becoming modern and a financially-oriented economy, an independent central bank, responsible central bank, is… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
All the central banks are doing is substituting one form of debt with another form of debt. They're issuing short term debt… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Success of bitcoin and the exchanges that deal in it could be interpreted by some to mean the demise of central banks,… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
We had a strategy to dollarize. It was to take the assets of the Central Bank against the national government, transfer those… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
The world changes! So we're in a situation today where the only policymakers that have flexibility are central banks. But they don't… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The Fed has been acting in rare concert with central banks worldwide to encourage borrowing and spending - and risk. And because… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold… — William Smith White Copy Share Image
I think that many central banks and financial authorities understand that any long term attempt to compete through an artificial depreciation of… — Elvira Nabiullina Copy Share Image
The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
As stupid as it might sound, older people everywhere would probably be better off if they'd abandoned prudence and borrowed more. That… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
The Covid-19 pandemic is what insurers call an act of God. It has hit us like an asteroid strike and unleashed an… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
Quantitative easing is just the latest chapter in the Federal Reserve’s hundred-year history of failure. (...) The American people have suffered long… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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