Europe’s Top Central Banks Take Divergent Tracks as They Confront Inflation

Finally and several years too late Western central banks are reversing the reckless and irresponsible extremely loose monetary policy and extremely low interest rates since 2009! Public and private debt accumulation became too cheap since 2009.

Cheap money can lead to binge buying!

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"Europe’s foremost central banks took diverging policy paths a day after the Federal Reserve set the stage for rate rises in 2022, differing approaches that underscore the challenges for policy makers as they balance surging inflation and renewed risks to growth from the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

The Bank of England became the first of the world’s major central banks to raise its benchmark interest rate since the pandemic began, while the European Central Bank said it would phase out an emergency bond-buying program while ramping up other stimulus measures to keep the 19-nation eurozone’s recovery on track. ..."

Europe’s Top Central Banks Take Divergent Tracks as They Confront Inflation - WSJ After Fed signal of future rate rises, Bank of England raises benchmark rate and ECB says increase in 2022 is very unlikely