Assertion: interest rate | /r/HasProperty | high
Facets:
value: relatively
type: DEGREE
value: during a stagflation period
type: TEMPORAL
value: for used car purchases
type: OTHER
value: as 19.7%
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: If interest rates are relatively high, your loan payments will be greater.
text: It will generally be found that if the economy is strong then the interest rates will be high, if the economy is weak the interest rates will be low.
text: For used car purchases, interest rates can be as high as 19.7%, or as low as 4.66%.
text: When interest rates are high, businesses tend to rein in spending, which causes stock prices to drop.
text: The reason why the interest rates were so high in the ’80s is that we had that runaway inflation,” says Jerry Lynch, a professor of economics at Purdue University.
text: In general, if interest rates are high, investment decreases.
text: When interest rates are high, investment becomes more expensive.
text: The downside to fixed-rate mortgages is that when interest rates are high, qualifying for a loan is more difficult because the payments are less affordable.
text: If interest rates are high and expected to fall, an ARM will ensure that you get to take advantage of the drop, as you’re not locked into a particular rate.
text: For instance, if the target is mainly inflation, during a stagflation period (a depressed GDP with high inflation) the interest rates may be particularly high, thus a counter-cyclical pattern would emerge.
text: (Conversely, if your interest rate is high, recasting won’t help that.)
text: A 2017 paper in Ecological Economics, which looked at interest rates and economic growth in four countries over a 50-year period, found that in fact, the economy is more likely to grow when interest rates are high.