Bank of England expected to raise interest rate to 13-year high to tackle inflation

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  1. Inflation at least 20% if you only buy food, rent and energy bills like most people.

    But Let’s raise interest rates from 0.x to 0.y

    You can see how over-leveraged the entire western world is now by the fact that they can’t even digest a fraction of inflation as interest.

  2. so a savings account will finally be worth something again?

    I remember the days when 3% was a standard

  3. This should have been done 3 years ago to stop the property market going nuts..

    Now it’s only gonna hurt harder..

    Gas and electric are at record high.nhs waiting lists are at record numbers, fuel is ridiculous, cooking oil is like gold,

    Yet BJ & co say they have done a great job.
    I haven’t even gone in to the covid debarkle

  4. Anyone know how long before this makes banks increase their mortgage rates for fixed products?

    Also typically how much it might increase – a 0.25% base rate doesn’t seem to actually increase fixed deals by 0.25% for example

  5. Over a decade of Tory and they haven’t even tried to stabilise the economy. Much like Boris’ sex life it is all pump and dump.

  6. Saved for years during low interest rates, waiting for the property bubble to pop. Now that I’m in a position where my hand is forced to buy soon, I’m seeing record high property prices and on the brink of high interest rates ‘for years to come’. F**king great.

  7. Just out of curiosity, why are people making such a big deal out of raising interest rates to 1%.
    Pre 2008 recession interest rates were above 5% and based on what I can understand the low rates helped push prices of the housing market sky-high.
    As someone who is 29, on a salary in the low 30ks, I am struggling to understand why the higher interest rate is bad

  8. One percent isn’t going to do shit to persuade anyone from acting any different with their savings or borrowing

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