Raghuram Rajan

Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to…

— Raghuram Rajan

The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class,…

— Raghuram Rajan

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

— Raghuram Rajan

As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing…

— Raghuram Rajan

Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country...…

— Raghuram Rajan

Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical…

— Raghuram Rajan

The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in…

— Raghuram Rajan

What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.

— Raghuram Rajan

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars:…

— Raghuram Rajan

I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.

— Raghuram Rajan

Let us remember that postponement of tapering is only that-a postponementLet's not lose the chance, the warning that we have been given,…

— Raghuram Rajan

When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to…

— Raghuram Rajan

The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation…

— Raghuram Rajan

We have very stable, solid economy; we are going through challenging times.

— Raghuram Rajan

If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much…

— Raghuram Rajan

The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement…

— Raghuram Rajan

The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

— Raghuram Rajan

Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there…

— Raghuram Rajan

Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far…

— Raghuram Rajan

Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural…

— Raghuram Rajan

How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either…

— Raghuram Rajan

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the…

— Raghuram Rajan

Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.

— Raghuram Rajan

One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off…

— Raghuram Rajan

We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

— Raghuram Rajan