Even though it's now widely accepted that the global economy is headed for years of at best slow, mediocre growth, the presumption of endlessly low interest rates has its doubters.

Regardless of whether inflation is tamed or not, Woo suggested that the historical interest rate average of 4% is no longer the norm. The new normal is expected to align more closely with today's ...

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The normalization of interest rates, and the return to fundamentals, opportunities in growth and value will lead the market, said Davis Advisors' Chris Davis.

That was a normal reaction, and participants didn't have to accept abnormally low yields for going there. Market rates were at normal levels. It has been a long, tough road getting them back there, ...

Zooming out and looking at interest rates over a longer time horizon, provides perhaps a bit more clarity on what could be considered normal for interest rates (Figure 2). Data since 1880 shows ...

Yet it isn’t entirely clear how much of that progress came from interest rate hikes alone. Econ 101 teaches that high rates cool demand by making it more expensive to get a mortgage, buy a car ...

Consumers don’t need an economics lesson to understand the impact of high interest rates. They feel it in the cost of mortgages, currently above 7.5 percent for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage ...

It raised interest rates into restrictive territory, then held them there for over a year. On Sept. 18, the Federal Open Market Committee lowered its federal-funds rate target range by half a ...

The Fed choked off inflation with pumped-up interest rates. The 1990s: 8.1% mortgages vs. 3% inflation – 5.1-point premium. Borrowers suffered after the mortgage-making savings and loans collapsed.