UK Foreign Minister visits India, Trump playing the race card again, Central Bank and the inflation-interest rate conundrum

Views from Down Underer

UK foreign minister David Lammy visits India very early into the new Labour government term in the hopes of resetting UK-India relations and mark by a focus on the importance of trade and economics. Trump in an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists made a controversial comment on presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' Black and Indian dual identities. Trump's comment shows an ignorance of identity code-switching. Lastly, global central banks seem to feel that the worse of pandemic era inflation is at an end but when to start moving interest rates downward is still more art than science.