That has kept prices up, it seems and maybe interest rates, too.
"Thinking maybe interest rates will creep higher, this is a very chilling scenario" for the market, Ms. Forrest said.
"I hate to say this because I'm a Republican, but the economy was better when Clinton was in office,' said Donna Doolittle, 42, a benefits coordinator who works at a hospital in Holiday, Fla ."Maybe interest rates are low now, but health insurance is going up; there are layoffs".
Even though we are not too big to fail individually, maybe an interest rate in single-digits would work for us?
And maybe, just maybe, higher interest rates mean I can start earning more than the.0005% annual interest that I'm now getting on my savings account, allowing me to afford a few of the finer things in life.
Maybe low interest rates and the flight from stock market into housing stock means that we'll be cashing in real estate killings for years, with downticks as dead as disco.
Maybe when interest rates are low during deflation (Japan now), people will tend to hold more money, whether they feel bad or good.
But February sales were up from January, so maybe the new interest rate deal (1.9% on L financing) and new advertising are helping.
So I'm not at all sure that we're looking at an interest rate spike; maybe even the opposite.
For a government that is likely to call national elections later this year, slow growth, higher inflation and maybe even higher interest rates are likely to prove an awkward mix.
