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Lowe's high rate legacy

20 February 2023 5:18AM Ian Rogers
Interest rates, consumer, RBA

Comment: We’d be getting nothing different from a different Reserve Bank governor. 
 
A normalising of interest rates is going on alongside this monetary tightening. 
 
The low point in most future cycles will be around where we are now.
 
So budget on mortgage interest rates of 8 or 9 per cent – in this and in later inflationary cycles. 

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