Economic Goals Quotes

Foreign trade can no longer be dealt with apart from other domestic economic policies and concerns. Governments often employ trade policies less for commercial ends than to achieve other goals- economic, political, and social.

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.

We didn't create an institution to increase land value or asset value.

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

It may seem strange, but Congress has never developed a set of goals for guiding Federal Reserve policy. In founding the System, Congress spoke about the country's need for "an elastic currency." Since then, Congress has passed the Full Employment Act, declaring its general intention to promote "maximum employment, production, and purchasing power." But it has never directly counseled the Federal Reserve.

Always keep in mind that in separating the United States from Great Britain, it is above all their commerce we want.

My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.

Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.

If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.

...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

Trump will fail even in his proclaimed goal of reducing the trade deficit, which is determined by the disparity between domestic savings and investment.

For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.

I think I've set some big goals. The American people haven't had a raise in 15 years. Getting incomes up is a huge goal. Now maybe it's not as exciting to some people, but it's a huge goal.

Did we ever plan on being billionaires? No, but we wanted to be millionaires.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.