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Charles Goodhart: ‘We’re in for a fiscal crisis down the road and we don’t know how to solve it’

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The former Bank of England economist on inflation, labour shortages, and the right to challenge central bankers.

14 December, 2023 by Sam Fleming

This is part of a series, “Economists Exchange”, featuring conversations between top FT commentators and leading economists

Back in the midst of the lockdown-induced slump, the British economist Charles Goodhart made a surprising prediction. With annual UK price growth running at less than 1 per cent, he

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