Given the UK’s disastrous experiences following the oil price shocks of the 1970s, it is no wonder that the recent increase in the oil price has fuelled talk of rising inflation and the threat of recession. But we think that the impact on the UK economy from a significant rise in the oil price would be relatively minor.
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