Central bank Quote by Milton Friedman

There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can control that…

— Milton Friedman

The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they…

— Milton Friedman

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

If we speak about fundamental things, regulation of the rate is actually the function of the main regulator, namely the function of the Central…

— Vladimir Putin

The Central Bank should take into account other things as well: the stability of the bank system in the country, the increase or decrease…

— Vladimir Putin

When they so-called 'target the interest rate', what they're doing is controlling the money supply via the interest rate. The interest rate is only…

— Milton Friedman

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same…

— Robert C. Solomon

The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

A crucial responsibility of any central bank is to control inflation, the average rate of increase in the prices of a broad group of…

— Janet Yellen

Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work,…

— Bob Diamond

The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

— Alex Berenson

The stability of the rate is the main issue and the Central Bank manages to ensure it one way or another. This was finally…

— Vladimir Putin