Quotes About Policy

With interest rates rising, gold doesn't pay an interest rate, but every other currency - it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold.

Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

Most economists use 'fixed' and 'pegged' as interchangeable or nearly interchangeable terms for exchange rates.

Under Obamacare, rates are skyrocketing, and insurers are leaving the marketplace.

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

If inflation is brought down, interest rates will fall. Once rates fall, we have the opportunity to maybe achieve the goal of 'housing for all' faster; take roads, infrastructure to India's interiors.

The degree of monetary policy ease should be associated with the level of real interest rates, not nominal interest rates.

The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the marketplace.

Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.

In stabilizing the macroeconomic environment, we have focused on aligning fiscal with monetary policy and nudging the central bank toward the objective of more market-determined exchange rates.

Lord knows I'm all for lowering rates and simplifying the tax code.

Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.

Legislators are interested in their pet projects, getting re-elected, and popularity contests.

Any time a president is re-elected, he has a little more political clout to get things done.

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

I have reached the conclusion that Hawaii does not need LNG in our future.

I have been outspoken on my opposition to 'Obamacare,' and I don't buy the line that our Medicaid program, or any function of government, has reached maximum efficiency.

The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.