{"id":1844,"date":"2009-12-16T00:26:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T00:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2009-12-16T00:26:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T00:26:43","slug":"inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/coffeehouse\/5639908\/inflation-nation.thtml\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"G7 inflation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article_images\/articledir_11279\/5639908\/1_fullsize.gif\" title=\"G7 inflation\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"75%\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been saying for ages that <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/1202\/\">deflation isn&#8217;t an issue in the UK<\/a>, and now that inflation is rising again, it&#8217;s clear that we never even got close, and if it hadn&#8217;t been for the temporary VAT cut, inflation would have been even higher.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/coffeehouse\/5639908\/inflation-nation.thtml\">blog posting<\/a> in the Coffee House about why inflation will continue to rise, and why that is a problem.  Do read it!<\/p>\n<p>Update: See also <a href=\"http:\/\/cynicuseconomicus.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/inflation-in-uk.html\">Cynicus&#8217;s take on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been saying for ages that deflation isn&#8217;t an issue in the UK, and now that inflation is rising again, it&#8217;s clear that we never even got close, and if it hadn&#8217;t been for the temporary VAT cut, inflation would have been even higher. There&#8217;s an excellent blog posting in the Coffee House about why inflation will continue to rise, and why that is a problem. Do read it! Update: See also Cynicus&#8217;s take on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}