Inflation

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• Britain’s wage crisis can’t go on

  10 Sep 2014: James Charles: If pay had continued to rise at pre-2008 levels, the average Briton would be £5,000 better off today. To repair the damage, the minimum wage has to rise

• Bank of England boss: interest rates likely to rise months before wages do

  9 Sep 2014: Mark Carney tells TUC congress workers will need to improve productivity and skills to claw back decline in real-term pay

• Mark Carney warns TUC that pay rises may come after mortgage hike

  9 Sep 2014: Bank governor plays down hit to living standards saying rate rises would be gradual and peak well below 4-5% average

• Retailers enjoy sales bounceback, with figures up 1.3% on last year

  9 Sep 2014:

  August sales helped by the weather – and popularity of Frozen film – but food sales drop amid supermarket competition

• Rail fares to match inflation rate for another 12 months

  7 Sep 2014: George Osborne announces train tickets will be held in real terms and pinned to RPI rate

• Consider unemployment before raising interest rates, Bank of England urged

  5 Sep 2014: TUC chief says Bank should be judged on ability to keep jobless levels low alongside requirement to keep inflation at or near 2%

• CBI forecasts slowing growth for UK economy

  4 Sep 2014: Group says uncertainty over Scotland and Ukraine will hurt growth as recent improved confidence and better credit wears off

• The Exaggerated Death of Inflation

  2 Sep 2014: Kenneth Rogoff: High inflation is treated as a theoretical curiosity by many analysts - they are unwise to do so

• Skills shortage fears temper surge in UK construction

  2 Sep 2014:

  UK builders enjoy strongest growth for seven months but warn of skills shortage, as pay booms and building material costs rise

• Eurozone gripped by deflation fears as inflation rate hits five-year low

  29 Aug 2014: ECB chief Mario Draghi is under pressure to act but experts say immediate measures are unlikely

• Nobel-winning economists challenge conventional thinking on recovery

  24 Aug 2014: Debt isn't always bad, fearing inflation is stupid and governments should spend far more, suggest top economists

• Bank of England's dissenters face tough task winning an interest rate rise

  24 Aug 2014: Business leader: With inflation likely to fall further and wages weak, the vote for higher rates by Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty looks doomed

• BT to put prices up for home phone and broadband customers by 6.49%

  23 Aug 2014:

  Consumer experts say hike, which is four times higher than rate of inflation, is 'football tax' to show matches on BT Sport

• A window on discount Britain shows a long hot summer of fashion bargains

  22 Aug 2014: Low cotton prices and the strong pound add to the 'Aldi effect' in clothes shops

• Consumers are winning a game of cat and mouse with high street shops

  22 Aug 2014:

  Clothing and footwear prices dropped 5.7% in July as shoppers held out for the best possible deal

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