Alex Berenson Quotes

Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their dividends to match the rise in prices.

Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting.

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth.

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.

To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.

It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

The normal half-brained politician sometimes doesn't understand capital markets.

Bond traders now veto presidents.

Whenever global economy is reasonably doing well, the investment flows.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

By purchasing and holding large amounts of Treasury securities and MBS, we put additional downward pressure on term premiums and so on long-term rates.

Investing is pure.

The most important element for any economy is confidence.

I was left £50 when I was ten by a fairly distant cousin, which my father invested in GEC shares on my behalf. I became interested in the market and was given some more shares by my father, which is when I began looking to see how the shares were performing and learning how to read company reports, balance sheets, and so on in order to gauge that.

If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest rates, and stock markets shouldn't be so high.

Starting in the wake of the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis), market observers have warned of a crash in the bond market. Initially, it was believed that the trillions printed to bail out the banks would cause inflation and, therefore, a flight from bonds.