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A collection of quotes relevant to post-pandemic investment considerations

Famous Quotes on Monetary Policy

Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.

Ben Bernanke - Former Chair of the Federal Reserve

Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals.

Janet Yellen - Former US Secretary of the Treasury

Monetary policy should remain data dependent, be well communicated, and ensure that inflation expectations remain anchored.

Gita Gopinath - Deputy Managing Director of the IMF

“You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.”

Christina Romer - Financial Writer

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

Stephen Harper - Financial Writer

How The Government’s Bank Shapes The Stock Market

“In an economy that is overleveraged to historic proportions, economic stimuli will not do the trick.”

Kenneth Eade - Financial Writer

“In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of the stimulus which is responsible for the inflammatory reaction.”

August Krogh - Financial Writer

“We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.”

Warren Buffett - Famous Investor

Famous Quotes on the Federal Deficit

You look at the U.S. budget deficit, and you cannot help but feel that this is a serious accident waiting to happen. And not just a serious U.S. accident, but a serious global accident.

Charles Dallara - Financial Writer

I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the budget deficit, but about tearing down the rich.

Stephen Moore - Financial Writer

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

Peter Welch - Financial Writer

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

Jay Carney - Financial Writer

“I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.”

Mick Mulvaney - Financial Writer

Federal Spending, Debt, and Deficits

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II."

Warren Buffett - Investor

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit."

Ed Parker - Martial Artist

I am fairly certain that our budget deficit was not caused by children with autism or 90-year-old grannies in nursing homes, so why take it out on them by cutting services?"

Lois Frankel - US Representative (FL)

Famous Quotes on Inflationary Trends

Businesses that have gone through an episode of hyperinflation become understandably alert to the threat of it: at the first hint of inflation, they're likely to increase prices, since they've learned that if they don't, and inflation hits, their businesses will be wrecked.

James Surowiecki - American Journalist

“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”

Milton Friedman - American Economist

Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.

Kevin Brady - Former US Representative

The Government does not have direct control over rising energy and fuel costs or on global inflation or transport costs. But it does have direct control over tax and the timing of tax rises.

Touker Suleyman - British Entrepreneur

Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the volatility of inflation and employment. As a result, I believe a macro-prudential approach to supervision and regulation needs to play the primary role.

Janet Yellen - US Secretary of the Treasury

Understanding inflation post-pandemic

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes - Economist

In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.

Robert Kiyosaki - American Entrepreneur

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Sam Ewing - Former MLB Athlete

Famous Quotes on Financial Regulation

The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

Charlie Munger - American Businessman

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.”

Carl Menger - Austrian Economist

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

Alan Wilson - Politician

There is a very real danger that financial regulation will become a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Henry Paulson - Former US Secretaryof the Treasury

"I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation."

Matt Bevin - Former Governor of Kentucky

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - Explained

"In the wake of the 2008 recession, Congress and the Obama Administration rightly focused financial regulation on protecting the nation's financial system from itself."

Seth Moulton - US Representative

It's important to understand how Coinbase thinks about regulation and compliance in the digital currency space. As an exchange, we view compliance as key to digital currency's success.

Brian Armstrong - CEO of Coinbase

“I always tell people, please don't put more than 1- 2% of your net worth in crypto. Please don't invest more than you can afford to lose.

Randi Zuckerberg - American Businesswoman

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