Consumption Quote by Wen Jiabao

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns…

— Timothy Geithner

Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the volatility of inflation and employment. As a result, I believe a…

— Janet Yellen

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in…

— Colin Powell

In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory…

— Borje Ekholm

Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

— Christine Lagarde

Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate…

— Hyman Minsky

By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation's financial system had been going on for over a…

— Jerome Powell

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a…

— Henry Paulson

Financial advice needs to change according to what is happening in the economy.

— Suze Orman

A real economic development policy would address the root issues hampering business growth, like access to credit and marketplaces so dominated by giant companies…

— Zephyr Teachout

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need…

— John Bruton

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

— Jerome Powell