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Bank of England deputy governor: Pandemic support isn’t to blame for inflation
Broadbent pointed to supply chain disruption and the War in Ukraine as
the factors that best explain the cost-of-living crisis
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<p>The Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy says energy
and supply-chain shocks, not pandemic-era support, have been the main
cause of the inflation that has been plaguing the UK. (Victoria Jones/
PA)</p>
The Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy says energy
and supply-chain shocks, not pandemic-era support, have been the main
cause of the inflation that has been plaguing the UK. (Victoria Jones/
PA) / PA Archive
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he Bank of England’s deputy governor for monetary policy says energy and supply-chain shocks, not the rise in household balances driven by
pandemic-era support, have been the main cause of the inflation that has
been plaguing the UK.
Speaking at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ben Broadbent examined whether the current inflation crisis is a result of
the 2020 growth in the “broad money supply”, which is predominantly made
up of funds held in commercial banks, plus cash in circulation.
That growth was mostly related to measures taken to provide support
during lockdowns.
“Supported by the furlough scheme, and because their spending was held
back by the lockdowns, households accumulated significant deposits
during the pandemic,” Broadbent noted.
Broadbent said that it was “hard to argue” that increased household bank balances explained the inflation that followed.
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“For one thing, the growth of consumer spending over the following year,
once the pandemic restrictions were lifted, was actually weaker than
either the [Monetary Policy Committee] – or, indeed, a simple,
money-driven consumption function – had predicted,” he said.
“Nor does the pattern of price rises, over the past couple of years, fit
the story. A pure, money-driven inflation affects all prices equally.
“What we’ve actually seen are huge shifts in relative prices – first the jumps in those of non-energy traded goods in 2021 and then, in 2022, the enormous rises in the costs of imported food and energy.”
Instead, Broadbent pointed to the supply chain disruption in the later
pandemic era, combined with the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
as the factors that best explain the cost-of-living crisis.
“There are lots of things – ‘shocks and disturbances’ as the MPC’s remit
puts it – that can affect inflation,” he said. “In this case it’s clear what those have been: the hits to the supply of non-energy goods during
the pandemic, to those of energy and food during the war, and the
resulting rise in their global prices.
“Thanks to the significant hit to real incomes they involved, these
shocks have also had sizeable second-round effects on domestic wages and prices.
“As an explanation for the inflation we’ve experienced, I think this
fits the actual data better than the single fact of strong household
money growth during the pandemic.”
Broadbent addressed the claims that growth in the broad money supply and inflation were the “inevitable” results of quantitative easing - when
the Bank buys bonds with newly created money.
He pointed to other instances where this process occurred but the money
supply and prices did not increase, as well as the fact that commercial
banks can create increases in broad money.
According to the ONS, the rate of inflation in the UK is 10.1%, after back-to-back months in which price rises came in ahead of economists’ expectations.
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