Why geopolitics is making central bankers’ job much harder
Tamara Ceaikovski
FRANKFURT — Geopolitics is colliding with monetary policy — and the European Central Bank is on the front line. Just four years after inflation surged to nearly 10 percent, Europe is facing another oil-driven price shock and more are likely to follow. The trouble is that inflation is increasingly driven by wars and energy shocks that central banks have little control over. “It is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve economic stability and growth through monetary and fiscal policy alone,”
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