How Even Mortgage Rates are Impacted by the War in the Middle East

In an article published on Marketplace, Susan Wachter notes how the rise in oil prices contributes to increased inflation leading to increased mortgage rates: 

“A key price for the inflation rate is oil. If oil markets are destabilized, as they are right now, and if oil prices [if] their significant increase continues, this is clearly going to raise the inflation rate.”

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