The recent sharp rise in public and market-based measures of inflation expectations has worried the Bank of England. Inflation expectations will probably rise further as actual inflation continues to climb. And if they rise by more than the increase in actual inflation would suggest and/or they don’t fall back as actual inflation falls next year, then the Bank may raise interest rates earlier and faster than we currently expect.
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