Yet it is hardly as though interest rate changes were so small that no one noticed. There are few issues reported at more length than interest rates; no one could say they were unaware of what was happening.
Beginning with the March 2005 rate change, moreover, the extent of coverage in the media has been far more intense than it had been prior to then, and far more intense than is the case in other comparable countries. We could debate the reasons for that, but they do not matter for present purposes.