Economists Quote by Steve Hanke

The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a fixed exchange…

— Milton Friedman

Although floating and fixed rates appear dissimilar, they are members of the same freemarket family. Both operate without exchange controls and are free-market mechanisms…

— Steve Hanke

A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.

— Elvira Nabiullina

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

What is the right exchange rate at one point is not necessarily the right exchange rate at another.

— Norman Lamont

This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will…

— John Butler

In stabilizing the macroeconomic environment, we have focused on aligning fiscal with monetary policy and nudging the central bank toward the objective of more…

— Yemi Osinbajo

Foreign exchange rates are determined by various factors.

— Fumio Kishida

After the maxi yuan depreciation of 1994 and until 2005, exchange-rate fixity was the order of the day, with little movement in the CNY/USD rate.

— Steve Hanke

When financial sectors are small and capital is mobile, floating exchange rates spell massive currency volatility. When a lot of foreign capital flows in,…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

'Fun money' is another thing that makes no sense to traditional economists. Because there's just money; there's no 'fun money.' It's all supposed to…

— Richard Thaler

One of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it doesn't make…

— David Graeber