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Business

Outlook on Interest Rates

NPR

Published March 14, 2005 at 10:00 PM MST

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David Wessel, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, discusses interest rates and mortgages -- why long-term interest rates have stayed so low and what factors might finally push them up.