The world economy started 2022 with a misstep: what determined the sharp slowdown in the recovery in the new year? Is there a single cause or are there many? Temporary or lasting? Which sectors are most affected by it? In what ways the increase in prices can it hinder growth? Has the vivacity of inflation surprised upwards too The hands of the economy? How and to what extent did it deviate from the predictable underlying trends? Have the deflationary forces become less powerful and pressing? What's behind it the energy cost shock? And the cost that dominates all the others, i.e. wages, is adding fuel to the fire? Central Banks are they chasing the acceleration of prices, or have they been right so far to act with circumspection, rather than raise rates a year ago, as many renowned economists suggested? Rates up and stocks down: is it an inevitable Pavlovian reflex? Why does the dollar swing like a leaf in the wind? What variables will determine its trend?
Questions crowd into the minds of those who want to understand how the rise from the pandemic will end, e The hands of the economy they will answer these and others. The hands are the monthly column conceived and edited by Fabrizio Galimberti and Luca Paolazzi a third of a century ago. They are published by FIRSTonline and boast numerous imitation attempts. Tomorrow the second release of 2022.
