Jamie Dimon Quotes

Usually, something that is fairly expected is already factored in. I also think that you have to think that America is raising rates because the economy is getting stronger.

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

Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.

It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and employment in the U.S. since the formation of the Fed.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

The strength of the dollar has historically been tied to the strength of the U.S. economy and the faith that investors have in doing business in America.

I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

What's true for New York is true for most of the country: We are a long way removed from the double-digit interest rates and unemployment rates, and the soaring crime rates, of the early 1980s.

U.S. economic activity continues to expand, led by solid growth in household spending. But business investment remains soft, and subdued foreign demand and the appreciation of the dollar since mid-2014 continue to restrain exports.

I continue to think many of the factors holding down inflation are transitory... We want to be careful not to jump to a premature conclusion about what's in store for the U.S. economy.

I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting.

There is nobody who would want, in any way, to lose what Paul Volcker won for the American people by fighting inflation and achieving price stability.

Of course I welcome all the normalization of monetary policy. I think monetary policy should be normal.

The only way to ensure that inflation expectations remain safely anchored near the FOMC's target is to keep inflation close to that target on a consistent basis.

The success of monetary policy should be judged by the economy's performance against our statutory mandates of price stability and maximum employment.

If you look around the world and see all the different countries struggling to get away from very low inflation rates with economies not nearly as strong as ours, you want to make sure we avoid those circumstances.

Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.

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

One factor that favors easier adjustment in EMEs is that U.S. monetary policy normalization has been and should continue to be gradual, as long as the U.S. economy evolves roughly as expected.

I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.

We have been mandated by the government, backed by legislation, that we have to have an inflation target of about 4%.

The economy's always been the engine for our national security.