BoE's Walton: Has oil lost the capacity to shock?

In the speech 'Has oil lost the capacity to shock?' given on 23 February David Walton of the Bank of England said that the UK economy appears to have emerged relatively unscathed from a doubling in oil prices since the end of 2003.

For Mr Walton, in explaining this fairly benign outcome relative to previous episodes of rising oil prices, "the size and nature of the oil price shock are important. But so too are the mechanisms by which the shock gets propagated through the economy. Among other

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