Business Quote by Jerome Powell

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

— Steve Hanke

You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment.…

— William J. Clinton

“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 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

Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get filled. And…

— Sam Zell

There are all these studies out there. But let's get at the bottom line. That is, I want to bring down rates. I want…

— Mitt Romney

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

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

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

There are real impacts from lowering tax rates, encouraging savings.

— Kevin Brady

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