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Businesses testing their pricing power

Our view that core inflation will increase faster than the Fed expects is based on expectations that both rent of shelter and medical inflation will continue to rise and that an acceleration in wage growth will generate a more widespread pick up in price pressures. A new upside risk comes from the recent evidence that some businesses have started to widen their margins.

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