The decision by the Hungarian MPC to ease monetary conditions further today looks like a policy misstep. Mounting capacity constraints and rapid wage growth mean that we think inflation will turn out to be much stronger next year than the central bank expects. And unless policymakers reverse course soon, they will find themselves facing a more severe inflation problem further down the road.
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