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Yoga for Rising Interest Rates

6 panels with a woman in different yoga poses. The poses are named for having to adapt to different situations due to interest rate rises.

After the Reserve Bank suggested in 2021 record low interest rates could remain until 2024, it came as a shock to many homeowners when rates were raised in May 2022, for the first time since 2010. Rates steadily increased over the year – by October there had been five rate hikes in as many months. Megan Herbert reflects on some of the budgeting contortions many households had to resort to just to keep up.