- October 24, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
Introduction
Id like to thank CBA for the opportunity to be here today.
Inflation is too high in most economies. This reflects disruptions to supply coupled with strong demand.
There has been an unprecedented monetary response in terms of the size of policy rate
increases, across a wide range of central banks in a short span of time. Graph 1 shows the average
of policy rates across a selection of central banks covering about 70 per cent of the global
economy. If market expectations for policy rates pan out, then by the first part of next year the average
policy rate will have increased by an amount comparable to the rise seen through the mid-2000s –
but while that increase occurred over four years, this increase will have taken just four quarters.
Graph 1
The increase in the Reserve Banks cash rate target has…
