The highest interest rate on government debt since 2014 points to much higher interest bill for taxpayers and the federal government. |EXCLUSIVE by swrighteconomy
“After a wasted decade, the Liberals’ legacy is a trillion dollars of debt with not enough to show for it and now the cost of servicing all that Liberal debt is going up too,” he said.
“The budget is going to go from these ultra-low interest rates to much, much higher rates and it’s going to have a huge impact,” he said.
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