Interest rates Quotes

• Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • Positive
  • Economic
  • Factors

• I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Bubble
  • Recession
  • Alternative investments

• The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • True
  • Growth
  • Crisis

• Obviously interest rates have been continuing to go up. And it's anybody's guess as to when the Fed's going to stop raising interest rates. Every time interest rates go up, mortgage payments typically go up too.

  

  Chris Cagle
  • Mortgage
  • Fed
  • Go Up

• Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Risk
  • Problems
  • Management

• Interest rates are used to achieve overall economic stability.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Stability
  • Interest rates

• You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit card payment. To our economy, it means business people will not borrow as much money, invest as much money, create as many new jobs, create as much wealth, raise as many raises.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Interest rates
  • Mortgage payment
  • Credit card payment