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An even better strategy is to park you savings as redraw in your debt account (like housing loan), since the interest you are likely to pay on your debt is always more than the interest you are likely to make on your assets. Further, its completely tax free.

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Nope, my house loan is 2.3% my liquid savings in FDLXX are about 5%. What you are saying is only true if your debt is incurred at the same time as your savings are accumulated. That's actually rather unlikely.

US is an outlier with 30 year Fixed mortgage especially during COVID. Now for any new debt its significantly higher across the globe.

You missed the point. Most people take on debt when it's cheap (low interest) and take on savings when they have high returns (high interest). You save when interest rates are high, you buy when interest rates are low.

That interest rates change is global.

Doesn't that assume you're always in debt AND the debt is greater than your savings?

Yes you need to always have current debt more than current liquid assets (like cash).

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