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What's in issue twenty three: Mortgage Mayhem & Measuring the impact of the Iran war

Issue twenty three of ‘INTEREST’ includes:

• Interest News - Middle East conflict takes toll as costs rise and business and consumer spending falls
• Savers lost up to 19p per £1 saved in real terms since 2020 as inflation outpaced savings rates, by Adam French, Head of Consumer Finance at Moneyfacts.
• Mortgage Mayhem: Five Years of Volatility, by Alastair Morley.
• The Iran War, by Max Shepherd, Group Economist, Yorkshire Building Society.
• Decades of crisis: Comparing the 1970s and the 2020s, by George Harrison.
• Is History repeating itself?
• MPC Minutes
• Rising taxes; falling incomes, by Adrian Coles, OBE.
• Points of Interest - The war's impact on the global economy.
• Moneyfacts Rules of Thumb: Compelling evidence that the Moneyfacts Rules of Thumb remain an accurate guide to how interest rates should behave across UK financial markets, by Niru Sandhu.
• A Rough Guide for Rate Setters.
• Points of Interest - OECD headline inflation broadly stable at 3.4% in February 2026, after continuous declines since September 2025.
• Moneyfacts Rules of Thumb and Charts

Issue twenty four published Friday 5 June 2026

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