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Bailey: Our Judgment Is That Inflation Will Not Persist

BOE

Q: Are you worried about how inflation will affect those that have not managed to increase savings during the pandemic?

  • A (Bailey): There are some base effects built in so we are comfortable that inflation will pick up toward target during this quarter. The fact that inflation goes above target is due to a range of temporary base effects.
  • The key question is whether it persists. Our judgement is that this does not happen i.e. that base effects would otherwise translate into persistent inflation.

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