Although economists expected rates to rise this year, nobody anticipated how fast they would rise. So what went wrong? Matthew Gardener, chief economist for Windermere Real Estate, lays out what happened and what’s next.
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Wrong predictions, rate jumps and what’s (maybe) still to come
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