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Don’t count on lower interest rates

Are interest rates heading for a “Table Mountain” scenario? asks John Authers on Bloomberg. The analogy, offered by the Bank of England’s Huw Pill, is that interest rates will need to stay high and flat for some time in order to bring inflation under control, rather like the famous plateau at the summit of the mountain

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