Inflation
Holding the line: the right response to war and Covid
Jagjit Chadha offers advice to policy-makers struggling to navigate between economic shocks
Rates round-up: RBI adds 50bp to main rate
Chile announces eighth rate hike; Thai PM reveals rate hold early; and more
Fed paper argues capitalism killed the Phillips curve
Shift in the balance of power between capital and labour likely to hold down inflation, authors find
Reserve Bank of Australia joins 50bp club
Australian central bank continues post-pandemic tightening with second, larger hike
Peter Nicholl on rebuilding Bosnia’s central bank
The former RBNZ deputy governor speaks with Dan Hardie about how he tackled financial instability in the aftermath of a war
Rates round-up: Canada adds 50bp to main rate
Kenya orders first rate increase since 2015; Dominican Republic hikes 100bp; and more
Biden holds rare meeting with Fed chair Powell
Yellen admits she was wrong about the path of inflation in 2021
Fed’s Waller believes US economy can handle several more rate hikes
Governor acknowledges uncertainties remain high amid Russian invasion of Ukraine
Fed’s favoured inflation gauge falls
PCE inflation reading for April 2022 was down from March
Is this the end for ECB QE?
High inflation makes it increasingly difficult for the central bank to justify asset purchases across the eurozone, despite rising fragmentation risks
Turkish central bank holds rates despite 70% inflation
Turkish lira reaches record low as central bank promises inflation will fall to 5%
Malawi devalues currency amid FX crisis
Reports say central bank has devalued kwacha by 25% as country’s exports slump
Guatemala orders first rate rise in nine years
Board cites concerns about expectations but inflation remains within target range
Real house price growth slowing slightly, BIS says
Advanced economies still seeing price increases that are close to historic highs
Bank of Korea raises policy rate again
Policy-makers expect high inflation for rest of year
Paper explains why ‘Fed put’ is not as reliable as investors might like
Disagreement between Fed and market can create perception central bank is “behind the curve”
RBNZ tightening policy ‘by more and sooner’
Central bank orders second 50bp hike, the fifth increase since last October
Rates round-up: Israel surprises with larger hike
Central banks in Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Paraguay and Jamaica also tighten policy
RBA’s approach to QT does not involve selling bonds
Selling assets could undermine future quantitative easing programmes, says assistant governor
BoE’s Bailey hits back at monetary policy critics
Facts “simply do not support” argument that central bank was too slow, governor says
Lagarde says ECB likely to abandon negative rates in September
Central bank would need to confirm end to asset purchases in June, and hike in July and September
Japan’s inflation breaches 2% target
High import prices a key driver as flat wages drag demand
NY Fed releases supply chain pressure tracker
Recent months have seen resurgence of supply chain bottlenecks
Tackling private-sector debt in the wake of the pandemic
Navigating Covid-19 debt is more of a challenge amid gathered storms of inflation and war, write Roong Mallikamas and Benjamin Weigert