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FLIPPING through the news over the last few weeks, it's clear that inflation will remain a key theme in 2022.
Singapore is not unique. Inflation forecasts are rising globally and the recent comments by US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell suggest that increasing prices could be persistent rather than transitory.
The causes have been written about extensively. As financial markets and the wider global economy recover from the pandemic, pent-up demand and supply chain crunches have led to rising commodity prices.
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