The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Stablecoins The ground is currently being laid to set the way for a new type of currency –the stablecoin. What is the… — Ikuya Takashima Copy Share Image
[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile. — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
Paul Volcker is a tremendous hero with the Federal Reserve system and for the American economy. He took very tough actions and… — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell,… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Our world isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about complexity. We live in a complex bureaucratic state with complex laws and complex business… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“His last name was Gum, and I wanted to chew him out. But I’ll save that for the Federal Reserve, who are… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Paying interest on reserve balances enables the Fed to break the strong link between the quantity of reserves and the level of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“on March 28, 2007, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, stated to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that “the… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
“The problem is that Republicans have purposefully torn down the validating institutions,” says the political journalist Josh Barro, a Republican until 2016.… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“The biggest fear for homeschooled children is that they will be unable to relate to their peers, will not have friends, or… — Sandra K. Cook Copy Share Image
The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War,… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The biggest issue I have with the CFPB is that I don't believe that they should be funded out of profits from… — Steve Mnuchin Copy Share Image
Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that,… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
