When last month’s headline inflation figure was released, showing a rise to 10.1 per cent on the year, a little bit of optimism broke through the general discourse of outrage and horror: despite hitting double digits, might inflation be close to its peak? The main source of this optimism came from falling oil prices, which recently have been on a downward trajectory.
But that narrative is by no means the consensus.
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