Originally posted by avonleigh
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An alternate opinion (copy pasted as-is from the top rated comment under her FT opinion piece) is as follows. Only time (and future unknowns) will tell who turns out correct -
“Once the tricky March-June annual comparison period drops out of the equation (ie by July) then the annualised inflation number will move down to be closer to the 3,6,9 month inflation numbers, all of which are below 2% and at the highest 1.6%.
We will then be in a situation where inflation has a 1 handle, GDP is 0.something (0.2%??) and rates are 5%+.
The last time we were in such a situation was almost 50 years ago and rates ended up coming down 10%+ from a very high level.
Further fuelling the inflation drop are food prices, household energy prices and rapidly slowing wage growth outside of the minimum wage increase (self inflicted inflation).
It should be clear by now that I think Megan is completely and utterly wrong, borderline crazy. The U.K. is not the US, for sure. We have lower growth, lower consumption, lower disposable income thanks to structurally higher energy prices, no housing bubble, no stock market bubble,.
We will soon have inflation well below 2% (within 3 months). The Bank was woefully slow to see that inflation was due to spike 2 years ago and it is now at risk of completely missing the point as inflation falls and consequently over tightening. In actual fact tge damage is already done since monetary policy operates with a lag.
Wake up, Megan and listen to your colleague Dingra, who is the only one who understands all this.”
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