Customer Quote by Jeremy Hammond

The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic…

— Mark Thornton

“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

The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

— Alex Berenson

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

There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much…

— Wright Patman

“The Fed is responsible for the financial markets. Financial markets hate inflation. Particularly bond markets. If the inflation rises, the Fed has to answer…

— Dean Baker

With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.

— Steve Hanke

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

The problem is that you're creating a system of bubble finance where interest rates are so low that people can speculate. An asset value…

— David Stockman

By putting downward pressure on interest rates, the Fed is trying to make financial conditions more accommodative - supporting asset values and lower borrowing…

— Janet Yellen

Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long…

— Raghuram Rajan

“The Federal Reserve dictated not only the interest rates at which banks could borrow from one another, as it does today, but also the…

— Yaron Brook