Inflation jumps to almost 6 %

[Wainuiguy]

And it is about time savers got a better return on their piggy banks...

And how do you figure that will happen with interest rates at 3.5 % but inflation at 6%?

Then let's look at the other side - higher borrowing rates combined with increasing living costs.

---

shovel ready

The only shovel they needed was the one to dig through all the bullshit.  They certainly had that shovel ready.

---

and inflation was going to happen anyway, well predicted, happening everywhere, but let's blame labour for causing it...

That could well be the case but what they did certainly didn't help.