Fed Quotes
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My proposal that Fed governors should signal their commitment to public service by wearing Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts has so far gone unheeded.
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One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
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Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
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But where will the Fed find another bubble?
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Imagination needs to be fed.
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The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise their contractual right to withdraw currency (the ungrateful cads); (2) to control entry of newcomers into the bankers' cartel (interlopers); (3) to keep the stock market from collapsing in a panic, thereby persuading depositors to withdraw currency
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What he's likely to do is to continue writing and speaking, as he has done to some extent at the Fed, and pursuing his interests in economics, which are very intense, ... He loves working with data and thinking of new ideas about the economy. I suspect we will get some of that, and in some ways, he'll be a little bit freer to speak.
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A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
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I will make continuity with the policies and policy strategies of the Greenspan Fed a top priority.
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The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.
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Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
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Desire is a beast that must be fed!
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Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don’t like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.
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There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation.
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I personally would have preferred if the Fed had been a little less aggressive.
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People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.
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Indeed, I hope to spend more time and to be more effectively involved in the city than I have been able to be at the Fed.
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Obviously, I haven't succeeded in defusing the political concerns about the Fed.
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Obviously interest rates have been continuing to go up. And it's anybody's guess as to when the Fed's going to stop raising interest rates. Every time interest rates go up, mortgage payments typically go up too.
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If I am confirmed by the Senate I will do everything in my power, in collaboration with by Fed colleagues to help assure the continued prosperity and stability of the American economy.
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The Fed is totally open.
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Our understanding of the best practice in monetary policy evolved during Alan Greenspan's tenure at the Fed, and it will continue to evolve in the future.
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The Fed needs an approach that consolidates the gains of the Greenspan years and ensures that those successful policies will continue - even if future Fed chairmen are less skillful or less committed to price stability than Mr. Greenspan has been.
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According to government ethics rules ... it is permissible for a retired (Fed) governor to speak in public about the economy so long as he or she does not divulge confidential information. I have no indication that he has violated that rule.