Actually higher interest rates would be a sign of better days, better economic times.
That sounds like an argument for not raising the debt ceiling, opebo; it's a sure-fire way to push up interest rates quickly and dramatically.
Not at all. The debt has almost no effect on interest rates.
great... Risk - management and their actuaries may now have to be rewritten.
Sorry, forget what I said. I wasn't reading your post carefully enough - it was just facetious. I was actually responding to the idea that the high level of government borrowing was having an effect on interest rates or economic growth, which isn't what you were saying.
But to try to respond more accurately - no, just because higher interest rates are normally a result of a growing economy, it doesn't follow that higher interest rates caused by other factors cause the economy to grow.
