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Offline wilber

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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #225 on: February 14, 2020, 08:57:15 pm »
If interest rates go up, borrowing costs will increase.  Pension obligations will fall.  The effect at this point would be a wash.

If interests rates go up, government debt will go up, real estate prices will tank and people will be going bankrupt and walking away from their homes because they are mortgaged for more than they are worth. That's what happened in the eighties.

Pension plans will do well though.
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