The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing. — Ralph George Hawtrey Copy Share Image
Any central bank should only be in charge of liquidity. Solvency is a matter for the treasury. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
It is clear to me that the financial sector, including CNBC, loves central banks — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks. — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Federal Reserve and other central banks could print more money only if they managed to get their hands on more gold.” — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by selling bonds. — Jeff Berwick Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
There could be some compromise, but I think we have to stick to the provisions of the treaty, and the provisions of… — Jacques Santer Copy Share Image
The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to… — Stephen S. Roach 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
Yes, when they're buying there are more buyers in the market and that's supportive of the price. The more buyers you have,… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For a small open economy that trades mostly with the euro zone it makes absolute sense to be part of the currency… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
What central banks can control is a base and one way they can control the base is via manipulating a particular interest… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would… — Ben Bernanke 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
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
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
When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson 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
The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny... — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank. — Milton Friedman 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
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
