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What the crowd rated

What should happen to interest rates where you live?

US job numbers came in weak on 7 August and bets on a US rate rise next month dropped back sharply. That is just over a week after three Fed officials voted to raise rates anyway. Tell us what you think should happen with rates in your own country.

67%They should go downQuestion 1
45%Cost of borrowing (loans, credit cards, instalments)Question 2

Question by question

Question 1Pick one
Right now, what should happen to interest rates in your country?
They should go down67%352
They should stay where they are23%120
They should go up10%53
Question 2Pick multiple
Which of these matters most for how you answered? Pick up to two.
Voters chose more than one answer, so these shares add up to more than 100%.
Cost of borrowing (loans, credit cards, instalments)45%234
How fast prices are rising33%172
Jobs and business conditions where you live31%161
Return on savings23%123
Value of your currency against the dollar21%108
Other (tell us)1%3
In their own words

Lowering the cost of living stands out as the main factor driving people's responses.

A themes summary of 3 written-in answers. Individual answers are kept private.
Who answered, and how we count itSampling, free-text handling and full methodology525
Verified humans
525

Every ballot is one World ID holder. No bots, no repeat voting, no weighting applied.

Margin at 95%
±4.3 pts

Sampling error for this many ballots. The crowd is self-selected, so this is not a representative panel.

Written-in answers
3

Summarised into themes by machine, then reviewed. Individual responses are never shown.

Aggregate results from verified voters. Free-text answers are summarised into themes; individual responses are kept private and never shown. A read-only record of what World ID holders expressed in our polls — not VoxPop predictions, and not financial advice.