What he was trying to do was to find the point at which he could slow down the economy and, in fact, the market, and he would have gently slowed down the market after three hikes, but he
overshot the mark and was not patient enough to see the impact of his price hikes.
Keen to rally Communist and Green partners who have been siding with jobless protesters against him, Mr Jospin
overshot the mark on Wednesday with one-sided comments 'in the National Assembly that provoked a walk-out by conservative legislators.