The Fed is totally open.

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

I don't fully understand movements in the gold price.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.