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Nobody likes high interest rates.
Interest rates are used to achieve overall economic stability.
When interest rates are coming down, you cannot have high margins.
We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.
And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.
The Government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.
It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.
Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up.
At the end of the day, it's not a normal condition to have interest rates at zero.
Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.
I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.
After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.
You cannot take bank interest rates very sharply down: you will lose your deposit franchise.
Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.
Politicians attend dinners at hotels with contractors. Bankers discuss interest rates at lunch.
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates.
Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.
The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.
The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.
Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.
The degree of monetary policy ease should be associated with the level of real interest rates, not nominal interest rates.
Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.
Stock price multiples are negatively correlated with real interest rates. As interest rates rise, the market multiple will fall.
Do not enter into an agreement you cannot afford. Take precautions to avoid institutional loans with double-digit interest rates.
For too long, our nation has relied on low interest rates rather than undertaking the necessary long term necessary economic reforms.
To get great again, we need to recreate what made us great in the first place, and so we're going to have to let interest rates go up.
I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.
I was absolutely astonished and could not believe my eyes at the outrageous interest rates that people in need have to pay to get loans.
We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.
Negative interest rates hurt banks' balance sheets, with the 'wealth effect' on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.
I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.
If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would be worrisome.
Demonetisation is a disinflationary process. So, this will bring down prices in the long run. It will also help in bringing down interest rates.
The impact of low interest rates is broad and deep. Many Americans rely on interest income from their savings to help cover their cost of living.
Fannie Mae has never publicly disclosed how much money it could lose if interest rates rose 1.5 percentage points in a very short period of time.
Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.
Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.
The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.
With interest rates artificially low, consumers reduce savings in favor of consumption, and entrepreneurs increase their rates of investment spending.
Monetary policy transmission encompasses the whole continuum of interest rates; of course, the central bank only determines the overnight policy rate.
To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
Low interest rates benefit individuals or investors who own or want to buy assets; in that regard, they disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.
Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.
Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment.