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.
Ben Bernanke -
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.
Eugene H. Peterson
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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.
Francine Busby -
Imagination needs to be fed.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
But where will the Fed find another bubble?
Paul Krugman -
A Fed loan to Lehman Brothers would not have prevented a bankruptcy.
Henry Paulson -
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
Gary North -
I will make continuity with the policies and policy strategies of the Greenspan Fed a top priority.
Ben Bernanke
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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.
Alice Rivlin -
The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.
Ben Bernanke -
There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation.
Paul Krugman -
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
Ivan Turgenev -
I personally would have preferred if the Fed had been a little less aggressive.
Ben Bernanke -
Desire is a beast that must be fed!
Eric Jerome Dickey
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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.
Alice Rivlin -
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.
Paul Krugman -
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.
Rachel Caine -
Obviously, I haven't succeeded in defusing the political concerns about the Fed.
Ben Bernanke -
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.
Ben Bernanke -
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.
Ben Bernanke
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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.
Chris Cagle -
We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.
Robert Pozen -
Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.
Ben Bernanke -
I think it's generally a bad idea for the Fed to be the arbiter of asset prices. The Fed doesn't really have any better information than other people in the market about what the correct value of asset prices is.
Ben Bernanke