The Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to drop the unemployment threshold and introduce phase two of forward guidance does not guarantee that interest rates will stay on hold for a long time yet. However, if we are right in expecting inflation to fall further and stay low, that should reduce the risk that the Committee responds to dubious measures of spare capacity and allow it to “explore the scope for economic expansion”, one of the original aims of forward guidance.
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