Warren Buffett Quotes

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a downturn, we have limited scope for responding, and it is an important reason for caution.

I believe that the history of Fed policymaking is that, you know, there are times when we need to raise rates.

The Fed's job is not to stall growth or to prevent economic 'overheating.' It is to keep prices stable and the dollar a strong and reliable currency.

The impact of low interest rates is broad and deep. Many Americans rely on interest income from their savings to help cover their cost of living.

When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and we're stuck at zero, that's one we don't know so much about - or we know about it that it's bad.

Prices always soar when there is a Congress government.

I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.

Higher asset prices increase wealth and, with a lag, induce higher spending.

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

Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns.

You can't create more jobs for an economy where the vast majority of people are hesitant and even afraid to spend and buy.

By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply.

When you have steady inflows and global central banks hell-bent on stoking credit activity and inflation, money will flow into the most attractive areas.

Despite the impression created by some economic pundits, the U.S. economy is not a delicate little machine that needs to be fine-tuned with exact precision by benevolent policymakers to keep from breaking down.

The road to economic well-being is to reward productive economic activity and to provide a moderate and predictable growth of money to finance real economic growth without reigniting the fires of inflation.

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

President-elect Trump is inheriting a relatively strong economy, and markets are pricing in faster growth under his watch.

As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through its own instruments.

Forget quantitative easing - I've always thought the idea of injecting virtual money into the system is an accident waiting to happen.

During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back moving up.

We have made a decision in our economy to lower taxes on successful risk-taking and have been very successful relative to Europe and Japan.