(Bloomberg) – Natural gas prices are seeing a historic surge, which is bad for everyone from ceramic makers in China to pastry shop customers in Paris. Unaffordable prices could constrain household spending and deteriorate their wages through inflation, giving central bankers some tough policy options. “High energy prices have an impact on the supply chain” and could affect the incipient economic recovery, said Bruce Robertson, an analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
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