The Bank of England now hasn't moved interest rates for six whole years
It's now been a full six years since the Bank of England cut its benchmark interest rate to 0.5%. Since then, a lot of things have changed. For example:
- The UK government came into power in 2010 (and will end in its current form in May).
- Lily Allen's The Fear was the best-selling UK single on 5 March 2009. She's since had two children.
- The iPhone 3G was Apple's latest handset.
- The US S&P stock index is up 200% since bottoming out in March 2009.
Some Tweeters have been sharing what they looked like back in early 2009: