While most of the focus is on the here and now, here’s what the medium term could look like.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Interest rates
Displaying 1 - 20 of 349 articles
Raising rates to fight inflation involves a time lag so current efforts to bring down prices won’t start having an impact until the next election is approaching.
The Fed’s decision to raise rates is likely to put more pressure on regional banks, which will make it harder to avoid a recession.
UK borrowers are expecting mortgage rates to fall again. Here’s why this looks unlikely in the current economic environment.
The Fed raised rates by a quarter-point – less aggressive than had been expected before the current banking crisis, but signaling inflation is still its focus.
The two central banks were due to raise rates aggressively, but then came the banking crisis.
Big interest rate hikes could cause more market turmoil, while doing too little could have the same effect.
The banking crisis has been caused by the interest rate rises, and further hikes were supposed to be a no no.
Large Canadian banks are likely not at risk of bank failures, but history suggests smaller, more niche financial service firms could be.
The latest consumer prices report shows cost of living is still rising far above the Fed’s target. But don’t expect monetary policymakers to aggressively hike rates.
Lenders face a lot of risks, but two of them – interest rate and liquidity – were the main drivers of the sudden and rapid failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. That’s why more trouble may be ahead for the banking sector.
The speed of SVB’s collapse was a surprise but central bankers can learn lessons from this failure.
SVB, as it’s known, collapsed with lightning speed following a run on its deposits.
The Fed has been trying to tame employment and wages to keep inflation in check. It ain’t working.
Central banks have been signalling that rate rises are going to get more aggressive again, but can the economy actually take it?
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe is unrepentant about the prospect of further interest-rate rises. In fact, he says there’s a risk the bank is not doing enough.
The Reserve Bank of Australia tips economic growth to slow, inflation to remain high, spending to stagnate, unemployment to increase and real wages to fall further.
The Fed lifted its benchmark interest rate just 0.25 percentage point following a series of much more aggressive rate hikes in 2022.
The US spent $213 billion paying interest on the national debt in the fourth quarter of 2022 as the Fed jacked up borrowing costs at an unprecedented pace.
The rising cost of living doesn’t hit all Americans equally. Yet the benchmark figure for charting the rising cost of living excludes people in rural areas.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer, Research School of Economics, and Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
-
Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
-
Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University
-
Visiting Faculty in Economics, Emory University
-
John Hawkins is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra
-
Assistant Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
-
Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
-
Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
-
Professor of Finance, University of Liverpool
-
Professor of Finance and Fred T. Tattersall Research Chair in Finance, West Virginia University
