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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Economics correspondent

Powerful Lords committee damns Bank of England over inflation forecasts

Bank of England building beneath a dark blue sky
The UK’s central bank has appointed Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the US Federal Reserve, to review its forecasting. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

The Bank of England’s reliance on “inadequate” forecasting models and a lack of intellectual diversity within its most senior ranks contributed to inflation sticking at among the highest levels in decades, a Lords report has found.

In a report critical of Threadneedle Street, the powerful Lords economic affairs committee said the central bank had made “errors” in its handling of the inflation shock triggered after the Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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