Rate Cuts Quotes

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

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

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.

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

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

When interest rates are coming down, you cannot have high margins.

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

The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those at the top is going to create jobs. It's simply not true.

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.

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.

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

Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. The success of his and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's experiment with rate cuts has been obscured by our modern history books.