Steve Easterbrook Quotes

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

I believe that the market is slowly waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is a clueless organization. They have no idea what they're doing. And so the confidence level of investors is diminishing, in my view.

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future

If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

There's three things that are never good for a consumer mindset: uncertainty certainly, concern, and discordance.

The bull market, rising prices, earning lots of money, make it seem as if the good days will never end. When prices are falling and there is a recession, that also feels as though it will last for ever. Politics is the same. People simply can't imagine changing circumstances.

The term 'business cycle' is imprecise. Economic fluctuations affect everyone, not just businesses, and they are, unlike astral cycles, anything but regular.

Uncertainty is bad for business.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

There's no doubt that decisions made by the leading central banks do affect the global financial markets and, consequently, our situation.

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'