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            <title><![CDATA[Economists urge restraint as Swedish election promises focus on tax cuts and stimulus]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The election campaign is in full swing and politicians are luring voters with lower taxes and fuller wallets. But economists say that is the wrong focus and that households are doing well enough. It has become a competition over different kinds of candy that I honestly think voters are tired of, says economist John Hassler.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[War premium on mortgage interest rates - series of increases by major mortgage lenders]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Nordea, SBAB, Swedbank, Danske Bank - a series of major mortgage lenders - have raised fixed mortgage rates in recent days. Experts describe this as a result of the war premium that banks have to pay on their mortgage bonds after the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Criticism Grows as Swedish Banks Lag in Lowering Mortgage Rates]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[That the major banks have not lowered the mortgage rates as much as the Central Bank upsets the politicians. The leader of the Social Democrats Magdalena Andersson describes it as "damn it".]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:32:31 GMT</pubDate>
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