Not sure about the conclusions but the evidence for motive is very apparent. Self-anointed autocrats always construct their own command-economy, believing in their own omnipotence: they only need to command the seas to part and it will happen. Then ...

Erdogan’s Push for Low Rates Backfires as Borrowing Costs Soar

Are these the sort of figures that might, just about, nearly, possibly change the ECB's current approach(?), which appear to be along the lines of: url

Import prices in November 2021: +24.7% on November 2020

I doubt his income is over $11bn. His wealth maybe. 2 different things.

Elon Musk says he will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year

All good points. Do you think, though, that the political battle between EU and Russia with regard to a) Russia and OPEC needing/wanting to keep prices high in a global sense and then b) the individual gas pipeline issues with regard to the ...

Annual inflation up to 4.9% in the euro area

It MIGHT just be due to a separate News item, overlooked on FF. There was a parliamentary constituency by-election result where the Government lost a comfortable majority in that constituency that has been held since time began, so making the ...

BoE's Pill: Asked About More Rate Hikes To Come, Says I Think That’s True – CNBC

It's a kind of double-negative speak without actually being just a clear positive.

ECB's Muller: In the long run, we are no longer concerned only about slowing economic growth

A good figure, which condones the BOE's decision yesterday.

Retail sales, Great Britain: November 2021

I doubt I'm the first to this pun, sorry, but if he's applying the necessary medicine, does that make it a 'bitter Pill to swallow'?

BoE's Pill: Asked About More Rate Hikes To Come, Says I Think That’s True – CNBC

I was going to say the same earlier but I'd add that she isn't an autocrat: there is a committee as well, however much influence Madame may well exert. In addition there is the well-hackneyed broad North/South EU outlook in the mix.

Monetary policy decisions

That may be so but at least it signals intent and potential direction. Maybe the threat of negative rates can be dispelled now, at least. It might, just, cause people to make different decisions and might, just, allow a tiny bit of wiggle-room if ...

Bank Rate increased to 0.25% - December 2021

Aha! About time.

Bank Rate increased to 0.25% - December 2021

Supply constraints inducing inflation and demand slip-siding away: stagflation?

US: Retail Sales rose by 0.3% MoM in November versus 0.8% expected rise

An extra ingredient in the cooking pot.

US: Retail Sales rose by 0.3% MoM in November versus 0.8% expected rise

, love the FIA analogy.

Consumer price inflation, UK: November 2021

Certainly agree with the chart looking something like a hockey-stick. I agree that action needs taking or rather it should already have been taken. I have no evidence of it but just thinking outside of the box here as inflation was as bad back in ...

Consumer price inflation, UK: November 2021

Good. If one was completely cynical, would that seem a convenient remedy: rather than a new single shot, 3 of the current jab? I'll bet Pfizer's share price has rocketed.

Pfizer: 3 Vaccine Doses Neutralize Omicron Variant - CNBC

Fair point.

Germany's Next Fin Min Lindner: The ECB Must Be Able To React To Inflation

In broad terms one might argue that Japan has been pumping liquidity for nearly 3 decades and this is just another convenient excuse in a long list.

BOJ Sees Omicron as Potential Reason to Keep Covid Aid

"RISK OF HIGHER INFLATION HAS INCREASED", partly as a result of our reluctance to do the right thing?

Powell: Risk of higher inflation has increased