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Inflation: beyond transitory

04/11/2021
Inflation: beyond transitory

Summary

Inflation has made a forceful comeback recently, and we believe it will last longer than the financial markets and many investors currently anticipate. In part one of a two-part paper, we look at the factors that may cause a more persistent rise in consumer price inflation – and why it matters to investors.

Key takeaways:

  • The recent inflation spike has been amplified by several extraordinary and temporary factors – including the post-Covid rebound and base effects
  • But there are other reasons why consumer price inflation may turn out to be “sticky” – including continued accommodation from central banks, less globalisation and an aging population
  • We also expect the fight against climate change and economic inequality to contribute to upward inflationary pressure

1 Source: OECD as at August 2021. OECD is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
2 When consumers, corporations and other parties expect inflation to remain steady, their “anchored” inflation expectations help central banks maintain price stability. If inflation expectations are de-anchored to the downside, the markets think inflation will be lower than the central banks’ target level.
3 In the US, the multi-year growth in broad money supply now exceeds the multi-year growth in real GDP by a wide margin. Historically, this measure of excess liquidity has also coincided with a rise in consumer-price inflation.
4 They do this by pegging interest rates at artificially low levels to reduce the costs of servicing sovereign and private debt.
5 This also has the added political aim of helping countries ensure the domestic supply of critical products, which increases their strategic self-sufficiency.
6 For a deeper discussion of the demographic impact on inflation see, for example, Goodhart, C., Pradhan, M. (2020): “The Great Demographic Reversal” and Juselius, M. and Takáts, E. (2018): “The enduring link between demography and inflation”
7 The precise mechanism linking high inequality and low inflation remains unclear, but one driver is that lower-income households tend to consume more. Higher consumer spending tends to push up inflation, all else equal.
8 Other factors pushing up gas prices include supply-side constraints and a generally higher demand for energy.

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