Cost Quote by Charlie Munger

By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.

— Walter Schloss

The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic…

— Jerry A. Webman

Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off…

— Franklin Raines

The interest is up and the Stock Markets down.

— Hank Williams Jr

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…

— Joseph Barbera

The future path of the federal funds rate is necessarily uncertain because economic activity and inflation will likely evolve in unexpected ways. For example,…

— Janet Yellen

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

— Charlie Munger

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Instead, he takes those coupons from his low-return bond and—if inclined to reinvest—looks for the highest return with safety currently available.  Good money is…

— Warren Buffett

“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 more money…

— Ken Auletta

Worry is the interest paid on a problem before it occurs.

— Anne Hemphill