Central bank Quote by Neil Macdonald

“Some grappled with the mind-bending question of why rates _can't_ go below zero. What if the Fed tried to set a negative interest rate--that…

— Neil Irwin

Low interest rates wipe out savers and devastate middle-class workers. The banksters have orchestrated this wealth transference of trillions, from the poor to the…

— Max Keiser

I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow…

— Robert J. Shiller

The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend…

— Mohamed El-Erian

“We see money accumulating at the centers, with difficulty of finding safe investment for it; interest rates dropping down lower than ever before; money…

— D.M. Frederikson

Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.

— Charles L. Evans

The higher interest and higher inflation is a vicious cycle.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid…

— Ben Bernanke

The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value…

— David Stockman

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

— Harry Enfield

Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy - especially when the economy is struggling.

— Ben Bernanke

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of…

— Alan Greenspan