Interest Rates Have Nowhere to Go but Up

[Synicus Maximus]

Source: NY times

Even as prospects for the American economy brighten, consumers are about to face a new financial burden: a sustained period of rising interest rates.

That, economists say, is the inevitable outcome of the nation’s ballooning debt and the renewed prospect of inflation as the economy recovers from the depths of the recent recession.

The shift is sure to come as a shock to consumers whose spending habits were shaped by a historic 30-year decline in the cost of borrowing.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/business/economy/11rates.html