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What would an era of higher inflation mean for markets?

We expect underlying inflation in the US to be significantly higher over the next decade on average than it has been over the last one. Nonetheless, we don’t think that it will climb sharply from here, or that it will coincide with much weaker economic growth or tighter monetary policy. So, in our view, markets will not falter in the way that they did during some periods of high inflation in the past.

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