Down and Quote by Franklin Raines

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

Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the…

— Franklin Raines

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth…

— Ben Bernanke

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

— Marek Belka

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes…

— Franklin Raines

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

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

— Mark Zandi

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

— Franklin Raines

It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes…

— Mark Zandi

We do see significant signs of a slowdown, in the economy worldwide.

— Marek Belka

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

— Robert J. Shiller

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…

— Donald Trump