Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.

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

I don't know of any President, now or in the past, who does not favor lower interest rates. That's the American way.

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

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

Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap.

Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

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.

Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.

Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.

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.

Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.

For too long, our nation has relied on low interest rates rather than undertaking the necessary long term necessary economic reforms.

When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

I do like low interest rates. I'm not making that a big secret. I think low interest rates are good. I like a dollar that's not too strong. I mean, I've seen strong dollars. And frankly, other than the fact that it sounds good, lots of bad things happen with a strong dollar.

I have always said that a bank's lending rates do not only depend on rate cuts - it is just one signal.

Every time the market has corrected, since 2008, it's always been the Fed that's made the bottom. The Fed has always saved the market either by cutting rates, launching QE, or threatening to launch another round of QE.

You cannot take bank interest rates very sharply down: you will lose your deposit franchise.

In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

I will say this: the central banks can actually support growth beyond a point. When there is no inflation, they can cut interest rates, and that is the way they support growth, but if you cut interest rate to the bone, there is nothing more to cut. It is very hard to support growth beyond that.