Philip R. Lane

Irish economist

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We take the energy market as it comes along.”
Our focus remains clear: to ensure that inflation stabilizes at our 2 percent target in the medium term,
The full implications of the war for medium-term inflation and growth will depend on the intensity and duration of the energy price shock, and on the scale of its indirect and second-round effects,
The risks to the growth outlook are to the downside while the risks to the inflation outlook are to the upside,
There’s going to be indirect effects on food, on goods, on services this year and into next year,
We are likely to make ​a further upward adjustment to ​the ⁠inflation forecast in June,

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