Paul Kasriel Quotes

You're going to see good profit growth over the next several quarters, but it's not going to be as strong as it's been of late. Still, it will be better than a poke in the eye. - Paul Kasriel

You're essentially renting from your bank with an option to buy. - Paul Kasriel

You're effectively lowering the cost of capital for corporations, and anything to lower that cost will help in inducing more plant and equipment spending. - Paul Kasriel

You can't make it up on volume if you're borrowing at 4.25 percent and lending at 4 percent. - Paul Kasriel

You can see a margin squeeze there. Higher prices are making it into the pipeline, but they're not making it to the faucet. - Paul Kasriel

You can compare it to a corporation that issues stock and bonds and uses the money not for plant and equipment, but to throw a party for the employees. - Paul Kasriel

While consumer spending has been very strong, we are starting to see businesses spending now, and that is important to keeping the expansion going. Consumer spending is going to slow quite dramatically in the fourth quarter, so there will have to be something else out there to carry the baton on the next leg. - Paul Kasriel

When you're the world's banker, you really need to maintain the world's confidence in you and your currency. If you start telling creditors you're going to pay them back in currency that doesn't buy as much, they won't want to bank with you any more. - Paul Kasriel

When the fog of war is finally lifted, we may find that economic growth remains weak because monetary policy turns out to be less accommodative than the Fed thought. - Paul Kasriel

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