I think interest rates will stay at 5.25%, place your bets...

[bobhope]

It's gonna be the boiled frog effect.

Still, there's a couple more rate increases this year to go.

[AtW]

Should have jacked up rate to 15% in one go just to give people something to think about.

[zathras]

No doubt Halifax will jack up the interest rate on the mortgage again. That is something like £100 per month it has gone up in the last year

I only wish the credit rating was better so I could tell them where to shove their mortgage.

[King Cnvt]

No doubt Halifax will jack up the interest rate on the mortgage again. That is something like £100 per month it has gone up in the last year

I only wish the credit rating was better so I could tell them where to shove their mortgage.

So you have to put your rates up by 1% to cover it. No big deal.

[AtW]

So you have to put your rates up by 1% to cover it. No big deal.

1% on (say) 300k morgage is not the same as 1% on (say) 60k.

[sasguru]

Should have jacked up rate to 15% in one go just to give people something to think about.

Your grasp of economics is risible.
How often have I seen that - very intense narrow expertise in one area, completely thick in everything else - seems to particularly afflict IT techies perhaps because most are borderline autistic.

[threaded]

Your grasp of economics is risible.
How often have I seen that - very intense narrow expertise in one area, completely thick in everything else - seems to particularly afflict IT techies perhaps because most are borderline autistic.

Who you calling borderline...

[AtW]

Your grasp of economics is risible.

Do you have a degree in business, perhaps you visited to some macro-economics courses?

[sasguru]

Do you have a degree in business, perhaps you visited to some macro-economics courses?

What does a degree in business or a course have to do with anything?

[shaunbhoy]

perhaps you visited to some macro-economics courses?

His grasp of English little better. You really are the archetypal geeky nerd alexei.