The MPC demonstrated quite clearly last week that it doesn’t have to wait for the new Governor to arrive to put flexible inflation-targeting into action. But Mervyn King continued to sound defeatist about what else monetary policy can do, suggesting that the focus should now be on Government-led supply-side reforms.
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