Bill Browder Quotes

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

Political reactions from Wall Street, whether they [are] right of wrong, could eventually influence the real economy.

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

The normal half-brained politician sometimes doesn't understand capital markets.

The global economy is unruly.

When a nation devalues its currency, it, in effect, increases its tariffs.

If raising or allaying [revaluing or devaluing] the Money could add to its Value, or have any good Effect on Home or Foreign Trade; Then no Nation would want Money [from that nation.]

There are two things that can disrupt the American economy. One is a war. The other is a meeting of The Federal Reserve Board.

Attempting to control inflation or protect the dollar by throwing legions of people out of work and shutting down shifts in our factories and mines is a hopeless policy.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.

Demonetisation is a disinflationary process. So, this will bring down prices in the long run. It will also help in bringing down interest rates.

What would happen if the markets suddenly questioned our ability to keep public finances in check? What would be the effect on growth?

It's time to stop pretending negative rates have any redeemable value - besides the ability to stimulate the market for physical safes.

There's no doubt that decisions made by the leading central banks do affect the global financial markets and, consequently, our situation.

The most important thing that most countries around the world believe in is letting the markets determine the currency.

The only thing that I know for sure is that the people who invest in the U.K., those investors, believe strongly that the ramifications of a hard Brexit are very bad, and they believe that a recession will take place in the U.K., and that would clearly be negative for banks of the U.K.

Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap.

We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that.

The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.