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Fiscal crisis to market crisis to political crisis

The sacking of the Chancellor and the U-turn on corporation tax might not be enough for the government to regain the full confidence of the financial markets. For that to happen, more may need to be done to fill the remaining fiscal hole and/or the Prime Minister may need to be replaced. Less loose fiscal policy would lessen one source of upward pressure on inflation and, consequently, interest rates. But the robustness of core inflation in the US in September increases the chances that the UK will suffer a similar problem.

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