Ifs Quote by Janet Yellen

The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend…

— Mohamed El-Erian

For people who grew up in the last four decades of the 20th century, it is hard to grasp the concept of negative interest…

— Anthony Scaramucci

How long can interest rates stay negative? Think about this. Not only are you lending your money to governments, but you're paying them interest…

— Mohamed El-Erian

Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.

— Charles L. Evans

If you happen to be the only one with negative interest rates, you also weaken your currency, which means you make your exports more…

— Mohamed El-Erian

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

— Marek Belka

Negative interest rates hurt banks' balance sheets, with the 'wealth effect' on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.

— Ben Bernanke

“Some grappled with the mind-bending question of why rates _can't_ go below zero. What if the Fed tried to set a negative interest rate--that…

— Neil Irwin

The day I get a credit card with a negative real interest rate is the day we can compare government debt to household debt.

— Anonymous

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would…

— Charles L. Evans