• Funderpants @lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It’s the mortgage and other loan interest rates that I’m meaning to allude to here. People facing a 30% increase in mortgages or rent might find that shelling out for that expensive car, it’s maintenance and operation isn’t as tenible as it was a year ago. That’s the whole point of those rate hikes, to stop us buying everything else and push price growth back in line.

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      Care rates are around 8-10% right now for most people. That is insane. I bought my Tesla before the pandemic back when rates were low. I bought my Audi recently and I have good credit. It was going to be 7% ut they had a special rate of 2.99%. The interest rates are killer for the average person and until inflation is under control, they will keep going up.