Inflation will probably melt away in 2022 – central banks will do far more harm trying to tackle it

By Brigitte Granville, Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy, Queen Mary University of London

It remains to be seen whether the omicron variant will shift Sars-CoV-2 towards becoming manageably endemic. But as and when this happens, there will still be “long COVID” to contend with. The latest headlines about inflation – a 7% annual rise in the US and more tough talk from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about bringing it down – confirm that something similar is happening with the global economy: it will…

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