24 - Do Current High-interest Rates Represent the New Normal?

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The highest borrowing costs since before the financial crisis of 2008 have upset investors’ assumptions of asset values, threatening to up-end housing prices. Long-term rates have climbed, alongside the highest policy rates in two decades, but no one expected those rates to scale 16-year peaks. So what does this mean moving forward? BMO Senior Economist Sal Guatieri breaks down similarities between what the global economy is facing right now, compared to what we dealt with in 2008.

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