Economy info has been on the TV news, graphs even to scale several times recently. Bought on due to the recent growth announcements.
Base rate. Something caused me to look on the web. The one I remember clearly is the USA. Went up post banking crisis and down again due to covid. The reason I looked was a feeling that we are stuck in a very low base rate economy as increasing it would upset too many apple carts. Rents and mortgages only being part of it. It's supposed to be used to control inflation and there were murmurs about risks of deflation which is seen as bad news.
I've also wondered about very recent financial easing and how others have done.