This is the common narrative but you have to ask yourself why it makes sense, because it doesn't. Interest rates going up doesn't hurt everyone, some benefit! I

This is the common narrative but you have to ask yourself why it makes sense, because it doesn't. Interest rates going up doesn't hurt everyone, some benefit! Interest rates going up benefit savers and hurt debtors. A lot of the large companies that laid people off had huge amounts of cash reserves and benefit from higher interest rates. These were highly profitable companies laying people off. Neither over-hiring or interest rates explains this. What does explain it are sudden increase in costs (like taxes).