Talk:Official bank rate
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Unlikely claim
edit"The official bank rate... has ranged from 112.5% to 17%." Really? I find this hard to believe, especially since (1) the citation for this statement appears to be a dynamically generated PDF that indicates that recent interest rates are far below 17% and since (2) this range goes from high value to low. Moreover I don't see why anyone would ever have accepted a 100+% interest rate on loans from the Bank of England. Alue (talk) 00:07, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Concept or UK-specific?
editShould this article be about the concept or the UK-specific Official bank rate? The linked article in SVWP is about the concept (and has sections about specific countries) whereas the NOWP article is about the Norwegian equivalent, controlled by Norges Bank. - Tournesol (talk) 09:17, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
Expert attention needed
editFor 14-15 years, this article has remained a stub. It seems nobody with the necessary knowledge to give the subject a good treatment has so far found it.
Info I would expect to see here includes:
- More details on the term's meaning and how this has changed over the years.
- More details on how the official bank rate has varied over time.
- The impact of the official bank rate on consumers, in particular how it impacts the rates charged on consumer loans / paid on consumer savings, but also any other impact it has. Note that this means both what impact it has and the mechanism by which it has this impact.