Interest rate hikes will not get ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz more quickly

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Thu, 12/03/2026 - 16:59
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Thu, 12/03/2026 - 16:59
Regular readers will know that I hate the term NAIRU – or Non-Accelerating-Inflation-Rate-of-Unemployment – which is a concoction invented by mainstream economists to maintain unemployment at elevated levels (to keep the working class in its place) and give cover to central banks to run monetary policies that redistribute income from poor to rich. If you…