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Inflation is a political challenge as well as an economic one

People care about price rises and the damage that they can do to real incomes

The return of inflation is not just an important economic event. It is also a political one. As it becomes decreasingly plausible that it will simply fade painlessly away, tough decisions must be made on how to react to it.

This raises big issues. How did we get here? How large and durable a slowdown will be needed to bring