20 Quotes by Charles L. Evans

If the national economy improves, Chicago will improve.

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

In a world of global competition and new technology, I think competition is coming from new places.

For every company that sees the value of their capital go up, there's another company that has been disrupted, and the value of their capital gets marked down because it's not going to compete in the same way.

At the end of the day, inflation has been below 2% for quite a long time, and to me, symmetry means getting somewhere above 2% inflation at some point in my Fed career.

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

Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.

I think that sharing information about our economies, the way that the central banks do in Basel and other forums, is quite useful. But it's sharing information. It's not coordinating policy. It's not coordinating a single monetary policy.

When capital comes into our own countries, it ought to be for, you know, a longer-term investment. If it's extremely short, hot money, we ought to treat it in that way and have type of regulatory policy.