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A soft landing is becoming a distant dream

Aeroplane metaphors do little to disguise the fact that central bankers are struggling with the inflationary overshoot.

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Major moments in markets tend to come with some sort of gimmick to explain them. In 2020, it was letters of the alphabet. After the initial COVID-19 crash in markets and in the economy, investors focused on what shape the recovery would take.

Would it be V-shaped, with a rapid pick-up from the depths? Or W-shaped, with a succession of setbacks? Or would it take an L-shape, with us all getting knocked down, unable to get up again?

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Katie Martin is the Financial Times' capital markets editor.

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