The Olympic mood was abruptly punctured by Mervyn King as he presented the Bank of England’s Inflation Report last week. Although the lower near-term profile for inflation was good news, this was overshadowed by the big downgrades to the MPC’s forecasts for economic growth. Even so, we don’t think that the Bank’s new forecasts were gloomy enough.
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