As the title says, numerous banks in the U.K., maybe across the world, are raising interest rates on mortgages, and the given reason is cause inflation hasn’t fallen as much as expected. Can anyone give me a basic inflation, other than greed, as to why they’d do this?
Actually, the reason for the inflation was the beer bug back in 2020. And the money printing that went on in very many places. Then on top of that, you had the supply shock from people not working. And that just made it worse.
Inflation in the UK didn’t really go into overdrive until Russia invaded Ukraine and caused a spike in oil and gas prices, which fed through to every other part of the economy because literally everything uses oil and/or gas at some point in the supply chain.