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What’s causing higher inflation and why it could last years
inflation reared its head in North America this spring, the common view was that it would be just a temporary bout of price increases. Now, though, many analysts aren’t so sure.“Inflation rates of three, four — or yes, even five per cent — could be with us for a year or two,” says Douglas Porter, chief economist with Bank of Montreal.Economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal this month had a similar outlook for U.S.