Important Quote by Janet Yellen

I think the concern over rising interest rates is ahead of itself because I think inflationary fears themselves might be premature,

— Sung Won Sohn

It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.

— Janet Yellen

We've seen that in the past that where you've had uncertainty, and even where the Fed is raising rates, Treasurys rise as everybody heads…

— Gary Shilling

“Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.”

— Stafford Beer

Very deliberately, the central bankers have punished savers, pushing interest rates so low that any truly safe investment - and older people are always…

— Neil Macdonald

Efforts to promote financial stability through adjustments in interest rates would increase the volatility of inflation and employment. As a result, I believe a…

— Janet Yellen

The Fed should not be responding to the ups and downs of the markets, and it is certainly not our policy to do so.…

— Janet Yellen

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

And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then…

— Franklin Raines

Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that…

— Alan Greenspan

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

— Harry Enfield

When interest rates are coming down, you cannot have high margins.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya