Barry Eichengreen Quotes

The $100 bill may be America's most successful export.

The U.S. economy is the global economic driver. And within the U.S. economy, the U.S. consumer is the global driver.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

The United States will remain one of the most important markets for VW.

The more money we have to throw around the better off we're going to be. I think this country doesn't understand its power around the world economically—its ability to buy friends.

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States

The United States’ economic preeminence is its own to lose.

America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.

The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.

All Americans should be concerned about the potential for China to replace the United States as the most important economy in the world.

You get growth in the United States, the rest of the world will grow.

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

A global economy requires a global currency.

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy.

America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.

When the nations of the world look upon the United States, they see a country which has achieved what they would all like to become one day. Whether it is in the field of science, art, music, agriculture, politics, economics or war, the United States is the leader.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.