Sometimes the person in the street is wiser than the policy intellectual. After decades worrying about too much inflation some of the would-be intellectual policy commentators are now worrying about too little. But the UK consumer is hardly likely to complain that the consumer price index is “only” 2.2 per cent higher than a year ago and has hardly ever been as low as the official target of 2 per cent.
有时候,研究政策的知识分子智商还比不上街头的普通人。在数十年担心通胀太高之后,部分自诩理智的政策评论家如今正在担心通胀太低。然而,恐怕英国消费者不太可能会抱怨消费价格指数(CPI)同比“才”上涨2.2%,并且几乎从来没有低到官方2%的目标。
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