Customer Quotes by Charles L. Evans

It's a challenge for monetary policy to communicate that our inflation objective is 2 percent.

— Charles L. Evans

If the national economy improves, Chicago will improve.

— Charles L. Evans

In a world of global competition and new technology, I think competition is coming from new places.

— Charles L. Evans

If you look around the world and see all the different countries struggling to get away from very low inflation rates with economies not…

— Charles L. Evans

I often will state things strongly if I think that it's important.

— Charles L. Evans

There is nobody who would want, in any way, to lose what Paul Volcker won for the American people by fighting inflation and achieving…

— Charles L. Evans

Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.

— Charles L. Evans

For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.

— Charles L. Evans

From the peak in 2007 to the trough in 2009, Americans lost $11 trillion of net worth for households and businesses.

— Charles L. Evans

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would…

— Charles L. Evans

Central bankers tend to be conservative by nature.

— Charles L. Evans

I think that sharing information about our economies, the way that the central banks do in Basel and other forums, is quite useful. But…

— Charles L. Evans