Army Quote by Ross Douthat

During the 1970s, inflation expectations rose markedly because the Federal Reserve allowed actual inflation to ratchet up persistently in response to economic disruptions -…

— Janet Yellen

We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and inflation prompted investors to flee production in…

— Nina Easton

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

— Pola Negri

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered…

— Ron Paul

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the…

— Noam Chomsky

The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against…

— Paul McCulley

"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without…

— Barry Goldwater

“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks on this…

— G. Edward Griffin

The Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe.…

— Milton Friedman

The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify…

— Marc Faber

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's…

— Alec Baldwin

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living…

— Thomas Frank