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Central Banking Quotes

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. Mary Kay Ash
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. Ron Paul
The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent... Thomas Jefferson
Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. Traian Basescu
There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. George Osborne
Ron Paul quote: "It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided..."
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. Ron Paul
I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate. Luis de Guindos
Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years. Toshihiko Fukui
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound. Toshihiko Fukui
There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar. Robert C. Solomon
Gerhard Schroder quote: "We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an..."
We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank. Gerhard Schroder
Alice Rivlin quote: "The job of the Central Bank is to worry."
The job of the Central Bank is to worry. Alice Rivlin
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke quote: "The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short..."
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns. Ben Bernanke
Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum Robert M. Pirsig

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