BBCNEWS Review 2022 June 4, 2024 17:34:00
Its products and services we buy are desperate for some kind of financial lifeline. simon, the energy to cook that meal is up 400%, and that is at the heart of the story, isn't it? yes, the story of 2022 has been energy and inflation. we were already seeing inflation this time last year, as the world economy emerged from a covid induced coma. you had economies coming back from a deep freeze, some supply chain issues, prices beginning to rise, but then the big event, which was russia's invasion of ukraine. that sent the energy markets into a tail spin, because russia is an enormous exporter of ...