Central Bank Quotes
36 quotes by 29 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
— Alice Rivlin
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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
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Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’ like…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are still…
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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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
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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
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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
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
— Ben Bernanke
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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
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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
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Quantitative easing is just the latest chapter in the Federal Reserve’s hundred-year history of failure. (...) The American people have suffered long enough under a…
— Ron Paul
Who Wrote These Central Bank Quotes
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