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Interest rate rise sends the wrong message in difficult times
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theguardian.comAfter months of hand-wringing and flip-flopping, the Bank of England has settled on a plan. Following a whopping eight-to-one vote in favour at a meeting last week, the monetary policy committee decided the pandemic was over and now was the time to begin pushing interest rates back to pre-Covid levels.
The decision to become the first major central bank to raise interest rates since Covid-19 struck in 2020 was greeted with a whiff of derision in some parts of the City.
It could simply be a pride thing, after the governor, chief economist and a couple of committee members spent months saying action was needed, but did nothing. The Bank would prefer us to believe that pride has nothing to do with it and that the shift is a lofty and coherent
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