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Wednesday 14 July 2010

Ready for higher interest rates?

For some time now I have been telling people that the threat is not deflation but inflation and I am often derided for it. So I was interested to read in The Telegraph that whilst:
'The Consumer Price Index rate of inflation dropped from 3.4pc in May to 3.2pc last month, according to the Office for National Statistics' it 'fell short of economists' targets of a decline to 3.1pc.

Increasing concern was the increase in "core" inflation, which excludes volatile factors such as food and petrol, from 2.9pc to 3.1pc.'
Expect inflation to rise very soon...

1 comment:

Grant said...

Quite agree.

Artificially low interest rates over many years were one of the causes of the mess we are in now.

Both government measures are fixed to underestimate inflation.

Food and petrol prices can only go up in the long run.