The European Central Bank should reverse its mistaken decision to hike interest rates.

To be sure, all G7 central banks are worried about the temporary rise in headline inflation, and all are threatening to hike interest rates.

The associated revenue increase was, at least, across the board, rather than the unbalanced hike in marginal tax rates at the top that was enacted.

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Inflationary expectations, as measured by the rates on certain market instruments, actually fell after the hike, indicating increased confidence that the ECB will keep a lid on price pressures.

A tax hike is only part of that.

Even the doves might support a rate hike in September to counter act the charge that they are being bullied out of a September hike by Sarkozy.

So, sooner or later, a tax hike will be necessary.

A hike, in other words, would indicate that good things are happening.

The best season to hike the trail is from April to October.

However, late last year, Everbright Bank and some others began offering fixed rate mortgages. Take up has been slow, but the April 2006 surprise hike in bank rates may help to sow greater public awareness of interest rate risk.

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Without comprehensive reform under strong political leadership, a tax hike alone cannot solve Japan s problems.

According to Brown, the tax hike would be temporary, yet it would last seven years.

But Japanese policymakers, media, and academics largely continue to favor a sudden and substantial hike.

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Indeed, some economists fear that a fiscal crisis could erupt even aftera tax hike is passed.

One of the first expeditions back in 1960, and a modern day hike to the top.

Indeed, even the markets were fooled, giving the ECB a good grade for its unremarkable rate hike.

But a consumption tax hike is no panacea, particularly given the government s lack of a growth strategy.

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Others spoke out as well, and the futures markets quickly predicted another 25 basis point rate hike in March.

Nonetheless, current interest rates were described as still appropriate in October, signaling that the ECB has not yet reached a decision to bite the bullet. To be sure, an unexpected slowdown in economic activity or a strong rise in the value of the euro could postpone the inevitable rate hike.

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Japan s new government, led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, started discussing a consumption tax hike to offset the growth in spending.

At the ECB press conference in early July, Trichet signaled at least one more rate hike either in September or October.

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The hike was just the trigger because underneath there are a lot of root causes such as the living conditions in Myanmar.

But the recent good economic numbers coming out of France should make an October rate hike easier for French politicians to accept.

Reduced rates of return will lower investment rates.

I think this view is too optimistic, because I suspect that the government wants to finance its new expenditure with a tax hike.

The first day they would take a hike, and it was, click, click, click, click. Five minutes later they were back in the boat.

Nonetheless, with Japan s economy just beginning to recover from more than 15 years of stagnation, such a steep consumption tax hike is not advisable.

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Currently, the hike up Chirripó is about 19.5 Km long (12.1 miles), with a mandatory overnight stay near the summit at a lodging station.

The ECB s paltry rate hike in December, together with the supine promise of no plans for further monetary tightening, demonstrates that Trichet is no Duisenberg.

Although the meager rate hike was presented as a consensus of the ECB s Governing Council, it soon became apparent that the decision had been controversial.

Without a strategy for growth, an effort to reduce government spending, and a policy to stop deflation, a tax hike will not solve the problem.

When the Cabinet Office called upon 60 business leaders, academics, and economists (including me) to perform such an evaluation, more than 70 favored the hike.

Trichet even had to rescind the rate hike he had signaled for September, though he still claims the increase has been merely postponed, not abandoned.

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