Quotes About Rates

An American government that really wanted to stick it to the Chinese Communist Party would be reinforcing U.S. alliances in Asia, instead of threatening to withdraw troops from South Korea and Japan until they pay extortionate rates for U.S. bases.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

The Small Arms Survey is the most commonly-cited source for data on gun ownership rates. It has given support to the claim that the United States has by far the highest level of gun ownership, with 88.8 guns per 100 people.

Gun control advocates such as Vox never mention that every single time that guns are banned — either all guns or all handguns — homicide/murder rates rise.

Extinction rates soar, and the texture of life changes.

Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.

Native women and girls experience violence at far higher rates than any other female population in the country - a crisis that has devastated our communities and has been neglected for too long.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.

Nobody likes high interest rates.

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would be worrisome.

I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.

There are so many instances in banking where 'free' simply doesn't mean free, whether it's opaque overdraft charges or credit card providers that are quietly raising interest rates without customers noticing.

Limos, from the beginning of time, they know who they're picking up, they usually have a credit card on file, they know where the pickup location is, and so there's essentially a prearrangement of sorts, and, of course, the limo customer knows the driver, knows the company, knows the rates. All we've done is make it more accessible.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

If we drive cost down, we will be able to live with low freight rates.

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.

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

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.