The latest anecdotal evidence from the US indicates that the economy is taking a sharp downward turn, which should become manifest in the coming months. Unless the ECB picks up the pace of interest-rate increases now, the goal of interest-rate neutrality may not be politically feasible, jeopardizing achievement of the bank’s price stability goals.
但是情况将开始发生变化。来自美国轶事般的证据表明，它的经济将急转直下，这将在未来的几个月内得到体现。除非欧洲央行加快其提升利率的步伐，否则，利率中立的目标也许在政治上不大可能，进而危及其实现物价稳定的目标。