Will the MPC still raise interest rates if there’s a recession?

It looks as though the economy is halfway towards a recession. Although the Monetary Policy Committee has never raised interest rates during a recession before (the last time it happened was in 1975), our forecast that next week’s CPI release will reveal that inflation jumped to a 40-year high of 9.2% in April means that the MPC may have to break new ground.

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