20 Quotes by Charles L. Evans

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

Paul Volcker is a tremendous hero with the Federal Reserve system and for the American economy. He took very tough actions and helped to break the back of double-digit inflation at a time when it had to be done.

It's a challenge for monetary policy to communicate that our inflation objective is 2 percent.

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would be worrisome.

I often will state things strongly if I think that it's important.

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.

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.

From the peak in 2007 to the trough in 2009, Americans lost $11 trillion of net worth for households and businesses.

Central bankers tend to be conservative by nature.