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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

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

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

— Rodrigo Rato

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy, moreover, is likely to be perverse. High interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary…

— William Vickrey

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

Logically, it may be argued that banks could indeed lower interest rates and make up their profits through larger borrowing volumes. But banks, in…

— Sucheta Dalal

“While Krugman thus ignored the role of the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy, Ron Paul had explained that when interest rates are high, it encourages…

— Jeremy Hammond

Stronger productivity growth would tend to raise the average level of interest rates and, therefore, would provide the Federal Reserve with greater scope to…

— Janet Yellen

“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

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

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

— Steve Hanke