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You may have noticed that statistics are having a bit of a moment.
Many of us have spent unusually large chunks of the past year poring over statistical outputs including numbers of cases, R-rates, vaccine efficacy, and many more besides. We have watched daily as ministers, public health officials – and, yes, statisticians – have pointed to screens displaying graphs and numbers, intended to elucidate for us the parts of the story that words alone cannot.
Professor Leitch made the claims at the Scottish Government s daily COVID-19 briefing on February 26 with Health Secretary Jeane Freeman.
Mr Leitch was responding to comments made by Professor Mark Woolhouse who said Scotland did not come close to eliminating COVID last summer as had been claimed by the Scottish Government.
The Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh had said earlier this month: “Scotland was not close to elimination at any stage during this epidemic.”
Responding to Professor Woolhouse, Mr Leitch added: “We didn t eliminate the virus but we maximally suppressed it. We had a month with nobody dying of COVID, three months after a lockdown.
The events of 2020 and so far in 2021 have provided quite a shock to the economic system. Let us call it what it has been which is a depression. It may for some be a speeded up one but others such as Italy and especially Greece had never really recovered from the credit crunch one so it is another feature in their lost decade. The policy response and the hoped for bounce back pose a lot of questions? Today I intend to look at the inflation issue.
Where Does It Come From?
Both versions of economic policy have been applied with full force. If we start with monetary policy we see a world of ZIRP ( Zero Interest-Rate Policy) and in some places NITP ( N = Negative) plus a whole swathe of bond and asset buying under the QE banner. This has meant that the money supply has surged. For example on the UK the measure of broad money M4 is growing at an annual rate of 15%. Monetarist theory suggests that goes into nominal GDP and as growth will not be 15% there will be an inflationary push. Wit
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