By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation's financial system had been going on for… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2%… — Glenn Hubbard 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
A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why the general public doesn't really understand our monetary system. In the first place, money is something that… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
The position of EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs could be combined with the office of Euro Group chairman. That job… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world; valuation is a positive act that makes an… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The unique aspect of today's monetary inflation is that it is not limited to one country, but a host of countries are… — Peter DeGraaf Copy Share Image
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love,… — Ludacris Copy Share Image
The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a… — Catherine Austin Fitts 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
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to… — Henry R. Towne Copy Share Image
... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Inflation is certainly low and stable and, measured in unemployment and labour-market slack, the economy has made a lot of progress. The… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated 'heavily indebted poor country,' with little legal ability to control its economic… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of… — Faustino Ballve Copy Share Image
Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty...… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“If your monetary wealth accumulates naturally and spontaneously, then let it accumulate, but do not lean on it for support. You may… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
