- Risks are growing that current high inflation is becoming entrenched in expectations
- Inflation could stay at painfully high levels for a considerable period of time
- The urgency for monetary policy to take action to protect price stability has increased in recent weeks
- Risks are rising that current high inflation is becoming entrenched in expectations
- We have to underline more forcefully our determination and commitment to protect our primary mandate
- It is time to put an end to the measures that were activated to fight low inflation
- Underlying price pressures can be expected to persist for as long as global supply and demand imbalances do not improve visibly
- Labour market conditions in the euro area continue to tighten
- The share of companies in the euro area reporting labour as a factor limiting production is now higher than ever before
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I can't see this speech combined with Lagarde's monumental shift to be anything other than a coordinated effort at the ECB to signal a higher, longer path of interest rates.
I think market participants are so blind to ultra-low ECB inflation messaging and dovishness that they can't see these speeches for what they are: A call to arms.