Central bank Quote by Neil Macdonald

As stupid as it might sound, older people everywhere would probably be better off if they'd abandoned prudence and borrowed more. That is obviously…

— Neil Macdonald

Quietly, without much public fuss or discussion, a new ruling class has risen in the richer nations. These men and women are unelected and…

— Neil Macdonald

“If anything, the unmistakable clues provided by the reports that highly intelligent and politically aware central bankers and Treasury officials became, as a collective,…

— Bernard Connolly

Once an economy reaches a certain level of acceleration... the Fed is no longer with you... The Fed, instead of trying to get the…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.

— Ben Bernanke

“The beauty of capital markets is that they are voting systems, people vote every day with their wallets. Now voting is finished. We’re being…

— Anonymous

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production,…

— Alan Greenspan

Central bankers tend to be conservative by nature.

— Charles L. Evans

Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy, they'll over…

— Milton Friedman

“At the G-20 meeting in Paris in 2011, finance ministers expressed fears that U.S.-driven global inflation was threatening global stability. George Melloan was among…

— Steve Forbes

The role of monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles by promoting steady inflation and healthy labor markets, but modern central bankers have…

— Anthony Scaramucci

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central…

— Ben Bernanke