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Heavyweight-price fight: how to beat global inflation

The Intelligence from The Economist

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What Kinds of Ideas Are Being Put a Forward?

Central banks are alert to the fact that they have to raise interest rates to fight inflation. In america, president byden has emphasized his anti trust policies as anti inflationry policies. A sort of focus theon on anti trustin and regulation in America. What about in europe? The focus has been on the price of energy because of the natural gas shortage. So you have a lot of governments considering subsidies for energy bills,. And in britain, we've had this suggestion that the government might invent a market stabilization mechanism for energy prices.

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