Top 1200 Interest Rates Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.

Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.

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.

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

I will say this: the central banks can actually support growth beyond a point. When there is no inflation, they can cut interest rates, and that is the way they support growth, but if you cut interest rate to the bone, there is nothing more to cut. It is very hard to support growth beyond that.

Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.

If you put Canada into $1.5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.

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

There is no difference, where aims are concerned, between a terrorist with a gun and bomb in his hand and a terrorist who has dollars, euros, and interest rates.

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested

We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.

To get great again, we need to recreate what made us great in the first place, and so we're going to have to let interest rates go up.

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.

I think the concern over rising interest rates is ahead of itself because I think inflationary fears themselves might be premature.

The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.

Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.

On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates.

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.

I was absolutely astonished and could not believe my eyes at the outrageous interest rates that people in need have to pay to get loans.

Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.

Low interest rates benefit individuals or investors who own or want to buy assets; in that regard, they disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up.

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

I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.

We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.

Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

Negative interest rates hurt banks' balance sheets, with the 'wealth effect' on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.

Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.

The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.

When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

If Republicans are correct that lower rates spur economic growth, then lower rates on all income - made possible in part by raising capital-gains rates - should bolster economic growth across the economy.

I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk.

Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.

You cannot take bank interest rates very sharply down: you will lose your deposit franchise.

An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.