No Threat of Inflation This Year – Here’s Why

So says a report* from BCA Research (http://bcaresearch.com) entitled No Inflation Threat In 2013.

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The article goes on to say in further edited excerpts:

[As can be seen in the charts below] global traded goods prices are falling, wages are growing very slowly in the major economies and monetary growth is moderate.

[While] central bankers have definitely softened their attitude to inflation and are prepared to take risks in the direction of higher prices in order to ensure a faster pace of growth, once economic growth does move on to sounder foundations, then policymakers’ attitudes will harden. In other words, faster economic growth is a pre-condition for a sustained major inflation problem, but an improved economy will trigger a tightening in policy. It would be a mistake to think that the current generation of central bankers believes that sustained high inflation would be a desirable solution to current debt levels.

Bottom Line:

Inflation will remain broadly benign in 2013.

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