Why is the Bank of England trying to stop us spending when we’re already doing that?
The Bank of England: it seems, behind this imposing facade, there lurks a circus complete with clowns.
It seems the economists at the Bank of England don’t have much of a clue.
They say they have raised interest rates to make it more expensive for consumers and businesses to borrow, so people start spending less, helping cool demand for goods and services and, in turn, slowing the pace of price rises; it’s a bid to curb inflation.
But people are already reining in their spending, because of inflation!
So the interest rate increase is pointless. Right?
Furthermore, as people are choosing to save (where they can), rather than spend, the growth of the economy is slowing – which is what the interest rate rise aims to do anyway. So it isn’t needed.
In fact, it may throw the economy into reverse, sending us into a recession.
And economists have warned that increases in interest rates may have little effect given rising global oil and gas prices, over which domestic changes can have little effect.
So there seems to be only one possible reason for the Bank’s decision:
Insanity.
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