Quotes About Impact

worried that inflation might develop some momentum.

The reality that small changes in the phrasing of the FOMC's statement could have important effects on policy expectations sometimes led us to spend what seemed like an inordinate amount of time on the choice of a single word.

But I knew that we would need to do more to get our message across.

This time the problems ran deeper and the statement did not have its hoped-for effect.

which she feared would do more harm than good.

They would prove crucial in containing global contagion.

Even as the financial panic subsided in 2009, the damage done by the crisis became increasingly apparent.

its effectiveness greatly diminished after loan recipients were identified.

Of course, by that time much of the damage had been done.

the results are not impressive.

I know it's hard to think of a $787 billion package as small, but its size must be compared with its objective of helping to arrest the deepest recession in seventy years in a $15 trillion U.S. economy.

much of the effect was offset by spending cuts and tax increases undertaken by state and local governments.

while the effect of Treasury purchases would be more broad-based.)

All this financial turmoil had direct consequences for Main Street America.

Would it have been better for market confidence to have admitted that we were unable to save Lehman?

My colleagues and I also were uncertain about the economic consequences of the war, especially its effect on energy prices.

it seemed to me that the health of the U.S. economy was linked to what happened in Europe.

We discussed risks that European developments might pose to the United States, but to date those risks had not materialized.

despite experts' warnings about the economic consequences. Likewise,

Whatever one has rejected is in itself a tangible shaping force.

No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

College students are attacked with bias from the moment they step on campus until the time they leave it. The effect is devastating.

Most economists oppose minimum wage laws, but that never prevents the laws from being written. The living wage movement lives on, not because of any merit, but because it's a popular political move to back anything that "helps the poor.