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«Why shouldn't we look at strong dividend players, levered to the economy, in sound and important businesses that pay above market rate yields?»

If the economy slows because of anticipated or real higher interest rates, we won't see unemployment moving under 7 %, and then the Fed is likely to reconsider and not «taper» at all!

Economies are not expanding fast enough for them to raise interest rates, but the longer rates stay low, the less impact they'll have on growth.

A laid off manufacturing worker who has given up hope of ever finding another job is not counted in the unemployment statistics, so an economy with a high number of discouraged workers could have a misleadingly low unemployment rate.

Ian Sexsmith, portfolio manager at Parnassus Investments, says banks» prices don't reflect the potential impact of more consumer lending and lower default rates in a strong economy — a mismatch that's creating some enticing bargains.

«The Fed has moved up the short - end rate up to 2 percent, and the 2 - year note yield has moved up to the 2.5 percent level... It doesn't seem there's any significant slowdown in the economy.»

However, as I wrote in «5 reasons why the housing market won't crash,» the Bank of Canada will only allow its rates to climb as long as the economy is growing vigorously — which, in turn, means that employment and income levels are trending upward.

A government of experts is not to be excluded either, especially if experts are clean, competent and working on an agenda that gives some hope of better government and improving economy in a country where the unemployment rate just hit an appalling 11.7 percent in January.

The key message conveyed by these numbers is this: Japan's loose monetary policies of the last 15 years could not produce a growth rate strong enough to lift the economy out of deflation.

And despite currency movements, not tomention a weak global economy, Canadian employers added 79,100 jobs across all sectors in November (when the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 %).

And the world's largest economy is not doing «very much to actually dispel those concerns,» Moritz Kraemer, chief sovereign rating officer at S&P global ratings told CNBC on Wednesday.

In his speech Monday, Bernanke sought to reassure investors that the Fed's timetable for keeping its short - term rate ultra-low «doesn't mean we expect the economy to be weak through 2015.»

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

Despite the strong overall report card on the health of the economy, financial markets have weakened modestly in the wake of the GDP release, perhaps reflecting disappointment that the GDP growth rate was not even quicker.

If the economy were to slow, and the interest rates were still at zero, the Fed wouldn't have its main tool to stimulate the economy.

Germany, for example, doesn't want to lose its credit rating to prop up troubled euro zone economies.

«Whenever interest rates go up, most likely we see some softening of prices, but we don't think it will be bad enough to hurt the economy in a meaningful way.»

Though the labour market is returning to normal, the U.S. economy still isn't firing on all cylinders, so rate hikes will be slow

The Fed needs to drive down long - term borrowing rates because the economy isn't growing fast enough to reduce high unemployment, Bernanke said in a speech to the Economic Club of Indiana.

When our unemployment rate doesn't change, less money is being pumped into the economy — and into our small businesses.

One of the ways he plans to do all this, according to comments he delivered to the Detroit Economic Club in early February, is by returning the economy to a 4 percent annual growth rate, which the U.S. has not consistently experienced since the 1980s and 1990s.

On purely utilitarian grounds, it is desirable to have a higher proportion of economic growth going to low and middle - income Canadians, so long as the policies to get us there do not reduce the growth rate of the economy.

There is little economic growth, thus raising interest rates is definitely not the way to boost the economy and pull us out of this downward spiral.

Economies worldwide «won't create new jobs at the same rate as we lose old ones,» says Martin.

I certainly didn't, even though the TLX A-Spec includes both a Sport and a Sport Plus driving mode, in additional to Normal and Econ (the last helping the car make good on its 20 mpg city / 29 highway / 23 combined fuel - economy ratings).

If world economies were truly strong, international central banks would not be enacting the broad range of quantitative easing measures and experimenting with negative interest rates.

With an unemployment rate of 4.3 percent and a bull market (at least at this writing), the late summer of 2017 looks like a Goldilocks economy: There's steady growth that's not too hot and not too cold.

Slowing the economy by raising rates simply isn't doing right by American workers.

«This is the third interest rate rise in six months and the economy isn't getting a chance to cool down.

«Interest rates aren't anticipated to pose a problem for the economy or equity markets this year,» Mike Bell, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said in the quarterly report out Tuesday.

Despite the strong labor market and calm economy, Leech does not expect the Fed to raise interest rates at its March meeting.

The ECRI is looking at year - over-year growth rates (not impacted by seasonal - adjustment formulas) and seeing a much weaker picture of the U.S. economy.

That's not normally an outlandish amount in a solid recovery, but the previous two years are estimated at 3.1 and 3.3 per cent rates respectively, so 2014 had better be a good year for the economy.

He added that it was a «good piece of news» that the Italian economy has been growing but the rate is not enough to generate enough employment.

Many investors, economists, activists, and some policymakers say the economy is still not ready for higher rates.

«I don't think inflation will do much harm to the economy and to my business, but the high - interest - rate policy that I anticipate the Bank of Canada will follow will do significant harm to both.»

She said: «But it is my judgment that the lower level of the unemployment rate today probably does not fully capture the extent of slack remaining in the labor market — in other words, how far away we are from a full - employment economy.»

The move is a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy — a signal that consumers and businesses don't need quite as much help via monetary policy now that the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.6 percent, close to what economists call full employment.

After years of downward forecast revisions that strained the central bank's credibility, the Fed finally settled in 2016 on expectations that maybe the economy's growth rate would not exceed 2 %, having been permanently affected by the Great Recession, slowed by changing demographics, or a combination of the two.

What makes this federal blockage all the more pressing for the Canadian economy is that the demographic crunch of low birth rates and an aging population is not unique to our country.

Speaking in Montreal on Thursday, central bank governor Stephen Poloz called household debt a major risk to the Canadian economy, suggesting the fear of stoking more borrowing as one reason he has not been even more dovish on interest rate policy.

The most familiar reasons are low interest rates, booming big - city economies, immigration, foreign and domestic speculation, and not - in - my - backyard rules that restrict supply.

«Interest rates can't stay this low forever, because there exists the real risk of the economy getting overheated,» says Alex Nikolsko - Rzhevskyy, an associate professor of economics at Lehigh University.

Canada isn't among the «advanced economies» that are getting close to raising interest rates.

The withdrawal of Federal Reserve stimulus and attendant normalization of interest rates is also a hot topic — as is the bloodbath in emerging markets — while many are coming around to the notion that the American economy just can't grow like it used to anymore.

Since the U.S. economy is only slowly improving, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has made it clear that he won't raise interest rates until 2015.

And mortgage rates were tied to long - term interest rates, which tend to rise when the economy improves, not necessarily when the Fed increases interest rates.

The factory data added to reports on auto sales, housing and employment in suggesting the economy was regaining some speed, but probably not fast enough to encourage the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates next month, as most economists had anticipated at the beginning of the year.

Furthermore the sharp rebound in December rate hike odds suggests that the market is certainly not worried that Trump will crush the economy overnight, and that Yellen may well go ahead with a December rate hike after all (even if it means pushing the US into a recession, then cutting rates and launching the much desired QE4).