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Fareed Zakaria
“... low interest rates and cheap credit also cause people to act foolishly or greedily ...”
― Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World
tags: foolishly, greedily, interest-rates
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“Changes in interest rates can have significant impacts on debt securities risk.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
tags: interest-rates, investment
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“Bond holders have to account for a variety of risks including interest rate risk and inflation risk.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr
tags: bond-purchasing, hendrith, hendrith-smith, interest-rates, municipal-bonds, risk-management, smith
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“Alternative Reference Rate; Risk Free; LIBOR free.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: alternative-reference-rate, arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, rate-of-interest, rfr, risk-free, risk-free-rate
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“RFR is; wringing-out the risk, out of LIBOR.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-transitiongging, rate-of-interest, rfr, risk-free-rate, risk-in-libor
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John Locke
“Tis in vain therefore to go about effectually to reduce the price of Interest by a Law; and you may as rationally hope to set a fixt Rate upon the Hire of Houses, or Ships, as of Money.”
― John Locke, Some Considerations of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money
tags: interest, interest-rates, price-ceilings, price-fixing, price-floors
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“A persons trustworthiness in one area of life may not necessarily transfer over to their trustworthiness as a borrower. And a business that can be trusted to do the right thing for its customers may not necessarily be a business that can be trusted to do the right thing for its creditors.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing
tags: basis-point, business-cycle, business-success, capital-markets, interest-rates, powell, quotes-about-business, the-fed, trust
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“We all really only want to lend our money to people we can trust to pay it back. It’s the same thing with banks and other institutional
lenders.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing
tags: basis-point, business-loans, capital-markets, how-to-get-a-business-loan, how-to-get-startup-financing, interest-rates, lenders, money-quotes, trust
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“The infamous Debt-To-Income ratio is the standard formula most lenders use to determine a potential borrowers capacity. Lenders calculate this by adding up a borrower’s total monthly debt payments and dividing that by the borrowers gross monthly income.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing
tags: basis-point, borrowers, borrowing, business-quotes, debt-to-income, hendrith-smith, interest-rates, lenders, quotes-about-business
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“ICE IBOR; the ventilator of the economy.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, ice-libor, interest-rates, libor, rate-of-interest, revised-libor, rfr
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“LIBOR; play book of financial players.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, financial, ibor, interest-rates, libor, play-book, players, rate-of-interest, rfr
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“Rules of rulers’ game; in favor of..?”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, favour, ibor, interest-rates, libor, rate-of-interest, rfr, rulers-game, rules
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“LIBOR; at times; insecurities, in securities.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, insecurities, interest-rates, libor, libor-rigging, rate-of-interest, rfr, securities
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“LIBOR; as if bank LI-fe BOR-ed of manipulations.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, bank-life, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-manipulations, manipulations, rate-of-interest, rfr
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“LIBOR; no more, the Most Important Number.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-transition, no-more, rate-of-interest, rfr, the-most-important-number
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“RFR; the new lease of life, to banking leases, loans and more.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, banking, ibor, interest-rates, lease-of-life, libor, libor-transition, rate-of-interest, rfr
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“IBOR; the new acronym for: I Bank On RFR.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, ibor-definition, interest-rates, libor, libor-transition, rate-of-interest, rfr, risk-free-rate
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“If LIBOR is in question; RFR is the answer.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-transition, libor-vs-rfr, rate-of-interest, rfr, rfr-vs-libor
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“If LIBOR is Gregorian calendar; RFR is the new regional calendar of each country.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-definition, libor-transition, rate-of-interest, rfr, rfr-definition
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“RFR is to LIBOR, what realistic is to abstract.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-transition, libor-vs-rfr, rate-of-interest, rfr, rfr-vs-libor
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“Colors of RFR on the black and white sketch of LIBOR.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-transition, libor-vs-rfr, rate-of-interest, rfr, rfr-vs-libor
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“LIBOR vs RFR; similar to Prime Meridian vs IRM; is all about, approximation vs accuracy.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-transition, libor-vs-rfr, rate-of-interest, rfr, rfr-vs-libor
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“LIBOR to RFR; as easy as Y2K?”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-transition, libor-vs-rfr, rate-of-interest, rfr, rfr-vs-libor
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“The financial world is Looking-forward to the Backward-looking rate called RFR.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, forward-looking, ibor, interest-rates, libor, libor-transition, looking-forward, rate-of-interest, rfr
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“LIBOR is the salt and pepper of the financial world.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, rate-of-interest, rfr, salt-pepper
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Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma
“LIBOR; is the oxygen of the financial atmosphere.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, LIBOR Plan B
tags: arr, atmosphere, bank, ibor, interest-rates, libor, oxygen, rate-of-interest, rfr
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“A country which pays even five per cent. interest, to say nothing of the rates of Wall Street, must from time to time commit bankruptcy.”
― Charles A. Dana, Proudhon and His Bank of the People
tags: bankruptcy, economics, interest-rates, wall-street
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“Like streamers on top of a sailboat indicating wind pattern changes, when long-term rates are lower than short-term rates, it's a telltale that trends are likely changing.”
― Coreen T. Sol, CFA
tags: behavioral-finance, boating, finance, interest-rates, investing, investing-quotes, investment-advice, money-quotes
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Mwanandeke Kindembo
“Religiously speaking, interest is an act of theft.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo
tags: banking-system, dreams, fame, heaven, inspirational, interest-rates, life, power, sing, world
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Steven Magee
“Having savings is an old-fashioned idea from a past era of low inflation and high bank interest rates.”
― Steven Magee
tags: bank, depreciation, idea, inflation, interest-rates, low-inflation, money, old-fashioned, past-era, savings
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