
Can the world cope with higher interest rates?
We expect the most aggressive policy tightening cycle in decades to cause a slowdown in global economic growth, not a severe downturn. The biggest risk is that inflation stays higher for much longer than we anticipate, causing central banks to raise interest rates well beyond neutral levels to quash it. We judge that an extra ~100bp of hikes beyond our forecasts might be enough to cause downside risks to crystallise.