Could the recovery cope with a rate rise?

There seems to be an assumption that a modest rise in interest rates, of say 25bps or 50bps, would be relatively harmless for the real economy. But we think that even a minor policy tightening could undermine the prospects for a rebalancing and recovery in the overall economy.

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