#98: The BoE, interest rates, the cost of living crisis, the energy debate and what can we be optimistic about in the UK economy with Shaun Richards

<p>Shaun Richards is an independent economist who specialises in inflation measurement and monetary economics. This follows a career in the City of London where he specialised in derivatives (mainly options) on interest rates and bonds.</p> <p>Shaun has also worked in Tokyo. He is a Bank of England watcher which covers the issues of monetary policy and money printing or quantitative easing (QE). Shaun also traded as a local on the London International Financial Futures Exchange where he mostly traded futures and options on future and present UK interest rates.</p> <p>We cover the following in our conversation:</p> <ul> <li>The Bank of England (BoE)-are they credible?</li> <li>Rising interest rates</li> <li>The cost of living crisis</li> <li>The energy debate</li> <li>CBDCs (digital currency)</li> <li>What can we be optimistic about in the UK economy?</li> </ul> <p>***</p>