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Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler: In a warming world, inflation targets need to rise

Central banks need to start thinking seriously about raising inflation targets because of climate change.

Global warming is inherently, inescapably, inflationary, so when the countries that have 2 per cent inflation as their formal target get inflation down to 3 per cent, will they cause a global recession for the last 1 per cent, when it’s not caused by excess demand but by climate change?

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