Rate Hike Quotes

When the time comes to raise rates, I do think there will be some benefits that flow through to savers.

To the extent that the Trump administration doesn't like a strong dollar, something has got to give, and just yelling at other countries for devaluing when you're raising rates and they're cutting rates is not going to work.

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.

I studied what happened in the bond and the stock markets during previous periods when the Fed stopped manipulating the bond market. In every single case, the moment the Fed announced that there would be a cessation of intervention, stocks declined and interest rates went up.

The monetary policy committee could either keep rates constant, increase them, or bring them down. There are three options possible compared to when it is accommodative.

I don't think it's possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner. Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets, so there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different. I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

It's appropriate for the Fed to gradually and cautiously increase our overnight interest rate over time.

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

If in fact the rates go up because the president refuses to budge then he will have to answer for that next year when our economy is not growing. When, unfortunately, people lose their jobs who work at a dental clinic as a medical billing specialist, or the paralegal at a law firm loses their job, or the courier at the law firm loses a job, these are not millionaires and billionaires.

If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a downturn, we have limited scope for responding, and it is an important reason for caution.

Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%.

If you appoint me, I will raise interest rates and choke off the inflation, and that will have bad political repercussions for you.

The business community won’t like it if the Federal Reserve raises the interest rate. They never do. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t do it.

But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

The only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.

There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.

If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.

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.

We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50 percent of the public, nothing; for another 25 percent, only a 10 percent increase; and for the remaining 25 percent, a 34 percent increase.

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.