Who'd want to be a central banker?

02/11/22 • 27 min

How will central banks behave in response to Omicron, shifting labour markets and inflation? In the second of a two-part series looking at Omicron, we are joined by James McCann and Luke Bartholomew to explain

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Omicron - the economic impacts on China, supply chains and inflation.

How is Omicron impacting China’s globally important economy? What impact will China’s strategy to confront Covid have on global supply chains? And what do these supply chain issues mean for inflation?

In this episode, the first of a two-part series, Luke Bartholomew is joined by abrdn Research Institute colleagues Robert Gilhooly, Senior Emerging Markets Research Economist and Sree Kochugovindan, Senior Research Economist to discuss these key questions.

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Macro Bytes - Who'd want to be a central banker?

Transcript

Stephanie Kelly 0:06

Hi and welcome to macro bites, the economics politics and policy podcast from abrdn, I'm your host, Stephanie Kelly. And this week, it's part two of our series looking at the impact of Omicron and other global shocks on the economic and policy environment for investors. So last week, we talked about Omicron, supply chains, China. This week we're going to be exploring how major developed central banks are likely to behave this year as they grapple with these really s