Assets Quote by Gerald Epstein

“Thus, increases in interest rates matter greatly for the economy as a whole. They not only cause direct reductions in investment spending and interest-sensitive…

— McConnell Campbell

If you let interest rates be freed, be set by the free market, they would rise dramatically. There would be a lot of broken…

— David Stockman

Businesses and households react to lower rates by investing and spending more. Lower rates also support the prices of housing and financial assets such…

— Jerome Powell

If you are, consolidating at a lower interest rate can help you pay off your debt faster. But if there's even a small chance…

— Jean Chatzky

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

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

If Republicans are correct that lower rates spur economic growth, then lower rates on all income - made possible in part by raising capital-gains…

— James B. Stewart

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

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That…

— Evan Davis

When the time comes to raise rates, I do think there will be some benefits that flow through to savers.

— Janet Yellen

Here's the interesting thing: the fact that QE and lowering interest rates almost to zero has worsened inequality, does not mean that raising interest…

— Gerald Epstein