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Bailey pours cold water on hopes of inflation falling quickly

22 November 2023

12:11 AM

22 November 2023

12:11 AM

Should we bother taking any notice of what Andrew Bailey says about inflation, given that he and his colleagues on the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) failed miserably to foresee any of the inflationary forces of the past two years? As late as May 2021 they were still predicting that the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) would rise no higher than 2.5

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