The bond market is debating with itself what the intent of…

The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great…

— Paul McCulley

While we don't think the Fed is an explicitly political institution, we think nearly all of Washington, D.C. is united in wanting to prevent…

— Scott Bessent

If the stock market does go through a crisis of confidence, which I think clearly will happen one of these days, no one can…

— David Stockman

I think we're so addicted to bubble finance at the Fed that they can't get out of the corner they painted themselves into. I…

— David Stockman

Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy…

— Franklin Raines

I think the Fed is not designed to have effective tools to deal with the economy. It should settle for just controlling the money…

— Jeremy Grantham

The reality is the most important thing that can be done are these permanent changes like to the tax code, reduction of government spending.…

— Rudy Giuliani

I think what the Fed fears is that, if Donald Trump gets big tax cuts and big spending increases that take effect right now,…

— David Wessel

The fact that the bond market is rallying today is a plus. If this ends up being a bear market, it will be one…

— John Manley

The best time to make deficit reduction a priority is when the inflation rate and the bond market give you some indication that you…

— Ross Douthat

“In sum, the most commonly used stock and bond market benchmark indexes cause economic harm, distort pricing information, and cause financial behaviours that are…

— Wayne Visser

I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a…

— Franklin Raines

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

— Jane Bryant Quinn

“The creation of the mortgage bond market, a decade earlier, had extended Wall Street into a place it had never before been: the debts…

— Michael Lewis

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.

— Lucas Papademos