BBCNEWS Breakfast November 4, 2021 06:17:00
To put money into a savings account, demand starts to flow and hopefully inflation _ demand starts to flow and hopefully inflation slows as well. we've sort of got used to low interest rates — but who remembers black wednesday when they reached 12%? before that they'd been bubbling around 10%. then in the �*90s they dropped to about 5% before the 2009 crisis slashed them right down to encourage spending. today — because of lockdown and again to encourage spending — at 0.1% rates are lower than they've ever been in the bank of england's 325—year history. we don't expect a rise anywher...