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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Charles L. Evans

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

I believe that the history of Fed policymaking is that, you know, there are times when we need to raise rates.

— Charles L. Evans

For every company that sees the value of their capital go up, there's another company that has been disrupted, and the value…

— Charles L. Evans

During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back…

— Charles L. Evans

When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and…

— Charles L. Evans

I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican.

— Charles L. Evans

At the end of the day, inflation has been below 2% for quite a long time, and to me, symmetry means getting…

— Charles L. Evans

When capital comes into our own countries, it ought to be for, you know, a longer-term investment. If it's extremely short, hot…

— Charles L. Evans