Business Quote by Steve Hanke

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

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

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

“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

It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so…

— Adam Davidson

“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

“firms do not borrow as much to invest when rates are higher and individuals stop buying durable goods against credit and, instead, turn to…

— Raghuram G. Rajan

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

— Kevin Brady

Clearly, for capitalism to work properly we must expect some upward normalisation of interest rates at some future point, to provide greater incentive for…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

— Alexander Hamilton