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Bank of England verhoog bankkoers tot 0.5%, goewerneur Andrew Bailey gee 'n wenke oor loonbeperkings
Die Bank van Engeland (BOE) het die land se maatstafbankkoers vandeesweek van 0.25% tot 0.5% verhoog om die ongebreidelde inflasie hok te slaan. "Ons staar 'n ruil in die gesig tussen sterk inflasie en verswakkende groei," het die Britse sentrale bank se goewerneur Andrew Bailey aan die pers gesê. Verder, toe 'n BBC-verslaggewer gevra het of BOE-lede Britse burgers aanspoor om nie vir salarisverhogings te vra nie, het Bailey geantwoord: "In die breë, ja."
BOE verhoog tariewe vir die tweede keer sedert die aanvang van die Covid-19-pandemie, sê die goewerneur van die Britse sentrale bank 'Ons moet selfbeheersing in loonbedinging sien'
Die Bank van Engeland het raised the benchmark interest rate again after raising the rate back in December. BOE was the first major central bank to raise rates after the pandemic and on Thursday, the rate was bumped again from 0.25% to 0.5%. The British central bank’s move follows hawkish statements stemming from the U.S. Federal Reserve when it said it would raise rates “soon.” Fed chairman Jerome Powell signaled that the rates would likely be increased in mid-March 2022.
Following the BOE’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting, the bank disclosed that four out of the nine committee members wanted to bump the rate to 0.75%. However, the majority of committee members, including governor Andrew Bailey, voted to increase the benchmark rate to 0.5% instead. After the increase, the British pound tapped a two-year high against the euro, and British government bonds were sold off during the afternoon trading sessions on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the central bank of England envisions inflation peaking in April to 7.25% even with the recent bank rate increase. Moreover, Bailey told the press that the public should not expect a marathon of benchmark rate increases. “We face a trade-off between strong inflation and weakening growth,” Bailey stressed to reporters. While explaining that the rate hikes would not continue for an extended period of time, Bailey was bevraagteken about the British working class by a BBC reporter.
“We are looking to see quite clear restraint in the bargaining process because otherwise, it will get out of control,” Bailey Verduidelik in an interview on BBC Radio 4. “I’m not saying nobody gets a pay rise, don’t get me wrong, but I think, what I’m saying is, we do need to see restraint in pay bargaining.” The BBC reporter then asked the BOE governor if the British working class should stop demanding higher wages and Baily responded: “broadly, yes.” Bailey’s remarks continued when he said:
“Dit is pynlik. Ek wil in geen sin daardie boodskap versuiker nie. Dit is pynlik. Maar ons moet dit sien om vinniger deur hierdie probleem te kom.”
Voormalige lid van die BOE Monetêre Beleidskomitee: 'Werkers in die openbare sektor het hul salaris vir 'n dekade gevries'
Dartmouth College professor Danny Blanchflower, 'n voormalige lid van die BOE se Monetêre Beleidskomitee (MBK) van 2006 tot 2009, het op Twitter gesê dat goewerneur Andrew Bailey geen idee het nie. "Net soos reële lone sterk negatief raak. Clueless Bailey sê vir werkers dit is hul skuld [en] moet laer salaris kry, al sal hy nie," Blanchflower tweeted. "Die publieke sektor se werkers se salaris is gevries vir 'n dekade van Tory-heerskappy, watter soort wêreld is hierdie - tyd vir werkers om vir hom te sê om te verdwaal."
Laat ek in een grafiek wys hoekom die MBK-besluit 'n ramp is - hier is die indiensnemingskoers in Nov 2021
Volle indiensneming, stywe arbeidsmark my hoed pic.twitter.com/8cArVXrJYy
— Professor Danny Blanchflower ekonoom en visserman (@D_Blanchflower) 3 Februarie 2022
Markets.com analyst Neil Wilson also criticized Bailey’s statements about not asking for wage increases. “The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, says we can do our bit to help to battle rising inflation by not asking for wage increases,” Wilson geskryf. “Coming from someone who’s been sleeping at the controls for the last 18 months, that is not exactly helpful. How about doing your job? By which I mean getting a grip on inflation before it sets in – which would have been to gently tighten last summer. Too bad that moment was lost.”
Wat dink jy van die BOE wat die maatstafrentekoers verhoog? Wat dink jy daarvan dat Andrew Bailey aanbeveel dat die Britse werkersklas moet ophou om hoër lone te eis? Laat weet ons wat u oor hierdie onderwerp dink in die kommentaarafdeling hieronder.
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