And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are… — Franklin Raines Copy Share Image
Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the… — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
The IMF insisted that both Russia and Brazil maintain their currency at over-valued levels. Who are you protecting when you try to… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Since 2008 you've had the largest bond market rally in history, as the Federal Reserve flooded the economy with quantitative easing to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
The single greatest line I ever wrote as an analyst was after Lomas said they were hedged: 'The Lomas Financial Corporation is… — Steve Eisman Copy Share Image
Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends… — John Hull Copy Share Image
You fall a bit behind on a credit card bill, your interest rate soars, your minimum payment rises, and you start falling… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
If you fail to pay your minimums for any debt on time, your credit score will take a major hit and you… — Alexa Von Tobel Copy Share Image
If you let interest rates be freed, be set by the free market, they would rise dramatically. There would be a lot… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
“The Fed is responsible for the financial markets. Financial markets hate inflation. Particularly bond markets. If the inflation rises, the Fed has… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
“There is an optimum rate of discounting the future—mathematically, an optimum interest rate—which depends on how long you expect to live, how… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“Debtors’ prisons were ultimately abandoned because, despite their cruelty, they neither deterred the accumulation of new bad debts nor helped creditors get… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“Beyond the speculative and often fraudulent froth that characterizes much of neoliberal financial manipulation, there lies a deeper process that entails the… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth. — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from… — Mario Draghi Copy Share Image
What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Bet on black. Buy low-debt or no-debt companies. When the economy is in trouble, these companies usually have enough cash on hand… — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Here's the interesting thing: the fact that QE and lowering interest rates almost to zero has worsened inequality, does not mean that… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the… — Rodrigo Rato Copy Share Image
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests,… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“The state arbitrarily set the mortgage interest rate at 8.5 percent—below the prime rate of 9 or so percent—so banks could make… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
One grave and fundamental Keynesian error is to persist in regarding the interest rate as a contract rate on loans instead of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Today, states don't need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Let's start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Believe me: The day [Barack] Obama goes off, and he leaves, and goes out to the golf course for the rest of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In Germany, college tuition is free. In America, college tuition is increasingly unaffordable. In a highly competitive global economy, which country do… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
![“Believe me: The day [Barack] Obama goes off, and he leaves, and goes out to the golf course for the rest of his life to play golf, when they raise interest rates, you're going to see some very bad things happen, because the Fed is not doing their job. The Fed is being more political than Secretary…” quote by Donald Trump](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/338/donald-trump-18_bad-thing_believe-me-the-day-barack-obama-goes-off_3192813.jpg)
