The firm looked at two hypothetical scenarios: one in which interest rates rise one percentage point a year for three years straight, with rates creeping up steadily each month, and a second where rates jump two percentage points over three months and then remain steady for the remainder of the three years.

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Both have an interest in keeping the Pentagon's mind concentrated on hypothetical overseas wars, as opposed to deadly attacks on the homeland which look all too possible.

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