This sentence may seem a little strange to you: For the UK economy, higher interest rates have been beneficial. For the first time in many decades, savers’ gains from higher interest rates have more than offset the harm that higher interest rates caused to borrowers.If this seems a bit strange, that’s partially because whenever anyone discusses interest rates—including politicians, economists, and the media—they tend to focus too much on one side of the issue: the borrower’s predicament. That’s understandable given that the pain has always outweighed the benefit in prior “hiking cycles” when the Bank of England has raised interest rates. Money latest: War on mortgage prices ‘likely’ with rates expected to reach 3%