Controlling government spending to tamp down factors that are causing high inflation should be a priority for the government, but a big-spending budget is already baked in.
Keep watching the unemployment rate for the key to how much house prices could fall.
As a kinder, gentler Treasury faces a looming recession, it will be challenged to find its inner naysayer.
A budget initiative to deal with a spate of crimes finds itself subject to a thief of another kind: inflation.