Economics

Post-Pandemic Economic Puzzle Widens to ‘Phantom Menace’ Rate

  • Models suggest equilibrium rate of interest declined for years
  • Social, economic trends unleashed by Covid-19 may reverse fall
Photographer: Nicole Tung/Bloomberg
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Global central bankers trying to gauge the threat posed by surging inflation have another puzzle to solve too: whether the pandemic has shifted their policy bearings.