The Impact Your Interest Rate Has on Your Buying Power [INFOGRAPHIC]. Folks, if you follow me regularly, it is not secret that I am an advocate of BUY NOW. And, a strong believer that rates will go UP - and they have! Now, perhaps more than at any other time in recent years, I think rates will be going up. How high no one knows. But remember, each incremental move up is less buying power on the amount borrowed. An opportunity not to be missed. More in today's article