In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
There is always the potential for a central bank to engage in discretionary monetary policy and to break the one-to-one link between… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
So just as I want pilots on the planes that I fly, when it comes to monetary policy, I want to think… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The monetary policy committee could either keep rates constant, increase them, or bring them down. There are three options possible compared to… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
In guiding monetary policy, policymakers must have a view on the outlook for the economy. There needs to be careful communication and… — Fumio Kishida 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
The fallacy of monetary policy in the U.S. is to believe this money will go to the man on the street. It… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I'm trying to be more nuanced and realistic. I think there has to be a serious… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Thus, increases in interest rates matter greatly for the economy as a whole. They not only cause direct reductions in investment spending… — McConnell Campbell Copy Share Image
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I think that is a very important milestone in our economic history that the monetary policy is now determined through a committee… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and employment in the U.S. since… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
While monetary policy affects foreign exchange, it also has a major impact on the burden of interest payments by small- and medium-sized… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
The role of monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles by promoting steady inflation and healthy labor markets, but modern central… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Ethereum may make monetary policy decisions like, 'Let's do 1% inflation to support the ongoing development of the Ethereum protocol.' A token… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
“For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Monetary policy ultimately must be conducted in a pragmatic manner that relies not on any particular indicator or model but, instead, reflects… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Stronger productivity growth would tend to raise the average level of interest rates and, therefore, would provide the Federal Reserve with greater… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because… — Franklin Raines Copy Share Image
Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
