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Monetary and fiscal policies are leading to 'significant inflationary danger,' economist Roger Bootle says wdaniel@businessinsider.com (Will Daniel) Economist Roger Bootle says monetary and fiscal policy is leading to "significant inflationary danger." Bootle said demographic changes, US-China tensions, and costly climate policies will only add to the problem. The Fed and a number of other market commentators have maintained inflation will be "transitory." Popular Searches In an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Bootle repeated his concerns about inflation and criticized ...

The Source for Market Opinions

A new economic era: is inflation coming back for good? The December meeting of the Federal Reserve’s most important economic committee was routine. Policymakers agreed that the economy could cope with rising levels of spending “without any strong general upward pressure on prices”. Although prices of a few raw materials were rising sharply, “finished goods have not been subject to pervasive upward cost pressures”. Generalised inflation, the committee concluded, was not a serious concern. This meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee was held on December 15 1964, just two week...

Protecting British farmers at the cost of a UK-Australia free trade deal would sacrifice the economic benefits of leaving the EU

My money is on prices rising a fair bit above the Bank of England's 2pc target, posing an acute dilemma for policymakers and politicians