BoE's Bean: current issues in UK monetary policy

In a speech on 'Some current issues in UK monetary policy' given on 28 July, Charlie Bean of the Bank of England said that "the immediate economic outlook appears brighter than it has done for a while".

There has been much recent media commentary about excessive consumer spending and a "debt time bomb", but Mr Bean notes that "the household savings rate has not been unusually low". He points out that the household debt build-up has been primarily associated with asset accumulation rather than

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