Affluent Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.

— Jerome Powell

“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some…

— Carroll Quigley

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and…

— Gabriel Kolko

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic…

— Carroll Quigley

“Democracy becomes an illusion in a nation with a centralised banking system, as such a structure inevitably leads to unequal wealth distribution.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.

— Ogden Nash

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall…

— Ron Chernow

“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is…

— Andrew John Hoffman

The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a nation.

— Vladimir Lenin

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom…

— Karl Marx

The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long…

— Ben Bernanke