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
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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.