Neil Cavuto Quotes

The Fed is totally open.

It has been said that the Fed's job is to take the punch bowl away just as the party gets going, raising interest rates when the economy is growing too fast and inflation threatens.

Once an economy reaches a certain level of acceleration... the Fed is no longer with you... The Fed, instead of trying to get the economy moving, reverts to acting like the central bankers they are and starts worrying about inflation and things getting too hot.

There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve...

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.

The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

The Federal Reserve can only buy Treasuries and agencies, and moreover quantitative easing typically involves buying longer-term Treasuries and agencies in terms of bills, for example.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

I believe that the market is slowly waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is a clueless organization. They have no idea what they're doing. And so the confidence level of investors is diminishing, in my view.

The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money supply. And - if it insists, it can worry about inflation.

Monetary policy and fiscal policy are inseparable.

The Fed [Federal Reserve System], whether it likes it or not, is required to provide adequate reserves to the banking system in order for the government to finance its needs, even when that is inflationary.

The Federal Reserve's job is to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going.

Our Federal Reserve has unlimited money raising powers.

We should be humble about our ability to stimulate the economy with monetary policy.

The Fed [Federal Reserve] is the world’s largest hedge fund.

Whip Inflation Now

For the first time the committee [Federal Reserve] was using communication — mere words — as its primary monetary policy tool.

Until the Fed dumps inflation targeting and the U.S. abandons its weak-dollar policy, inflation will rule the day.