Central Banks: Lessons from the battle against inflation

Bringing FT's newsletter, Chris Giles on Central Banks, to life.

To mark the launch of a new weekly FT newsletter, Chris Giles on Central Banks, Chris and his international colleagues gathered for a subscriber-exclusive webinar to discuss central banks’ ability to forecast and control inflation. 

Which major western central bank and which school of thought got closest to making the right call on the post-pandemic inflation spike that was initially deemed to be transitory? As Ben Bernanke, the former US Fed chair conducts a review of Bank of England modelling and the Fed itself wonders if its 2 per cent inflation target is correct, what changes in practice might emerge in the years ahead following the widespread failures to see this inflation spike coming. What lessons are being drawn at other institutions, from Frankfurt to Tokyo? 

In the newsletter, free for premium subscribers from October 17, Chris, the FT's economics editor for 19 years, will be deploying an international lens to examine the economic data, the best new ideas, and the way central banks talk to us about their crucial decisions. 

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