Central Bank Quotes

36 quotes by 29 authors

The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the… — Ben Bernanke
By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in… — George Soros
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third… — Milton Friedman
People think what's in the US today is capitalism. It's not even close to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have a central bank, capitalism doesn't have taxes,… — Jeff Berwick
Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money… — Jacob Schiff
The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and… — Douglas Harding
The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people… — Andrew Jackson
A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public.… — Ian Macfarlane
The job of the Central Bank is to worry. — Alice Rivlin
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central… — Alan Greenspan
Thanks to the central bank, most â€˜monetary expertsâ€™ and â€˜leading macro-economistsâ€™ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists â€˜explaining,â€™ like… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course â€” it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
There are five main purposes of central bank cooperation"..."the provision of international credits and joint efforts to influence asset prices (especially gold and foreign exchange)… — William Smith White
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.… — Paul Volcker
There could be some compromise, but I think we have to stick to the provisions of the treaty, and the provisions of the treaty are… — Jacques Santer
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. — Ben Bernanke
All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt to establish a… — John F. Kennedy
When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has… — James Rickards
Quantitative easing is just the latest chapter in the Federal Reserveâ€™s hundred-year history of failure. (...) The American people have suffered long enough under a… — Ron Paul

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