Economics

Fears Mount About Inflation Returning With a Vengeance

  • Aftermaths of major conflicts tend to feature surging prices
  • Policy makers are more worried about deflation for now

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Even a calamity of disease, death and economic destruction afflicting the world all at once isn’t enough to suppress the notion in some quarters that inflation could return with a vengeance.