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ARTICLE · 02 SEPTEMBER 2013

Deloitte Monday Briefing: Another Initiative To Boost Growth

Some recent news stories that caught our eye as reflecting key economic themes

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  • In the last five years, policymakers have tried a series of policies to boost growth - from ultra-low interest rates to massive purchases of government debt and programmes to kick start bank lending. The latest weapon to be deployed is forward guidance, an opaque phrase for a policy which aims to convince people that interest rates will stay lower for longer.
  • Earlier this month, the new governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, promised that UK interest rates would stay at their current level of just 0.5% until unemployment falls below 7.0%. With the jobless rate at 7.6%, and the Bank not expecting it to fall below 7.0% until late 2016, the message to consumers and business is that low interest rates are here to stay for at least another three years.

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