Goals Quote by Charles L. Evans

We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.

— Urjit Patel

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

— Denis Healey

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and…

— Milton Friedman

It is important to recognise near- and medium-term risks to the inflation outlook.

— Urjit Patel

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

— Janet Yellen

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would…

— Charles L. Evans

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to assess just…

— Janet Yellen

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

— Janet Yellen

Inflation is not an abstract idea thrown around by finance gurus. Inflation is a very real threat to the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans throughout…

— Tommy Tuberville

The only way to ensure that inflation expectations remain safely anchored near the FOMC's target is to keep inflation close to that target on…

— Jerome Powell

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

— Ludwig von Mises

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control…

— Friedrich August von Hayek