Central bankers can swagger all they like, but they can’t tame inflation | Phillip Inman

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Raising rates has no effect when the things that are rising in price the fastest, such as fuel and food, are essential purchasesCentral bankers appear on stage like army generals these days. They boast about their firepower and claim they will crush inflation, their longtime adversary. No quarter will be given in the war. The collateral damage will be high.A week on Thursday, the Bank of England will raise interest rates for a seventh time since last December, probably to 2.25%, and semaphore the message to financial markets that Threadneedle Street is not finished in its quest to defeat infla ...

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