Jan 27 2007

The government stumbles - the Bank of England trips

Published by John Redwood at 4:20 pm under Blog

We are told by the government that their huge economic “success” has come through making the Bank of England independent.

Yet over the last decade the UK has had considerably higher interest rates than Japan, the USA or Euroland, and now has considerably higher inflation.

Over the last 10 years Japanese base rates have hovered around zero, Euroland rates around 2%

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