Frankfurt — True believers in the return of global inflation have started 2020 with renewed hope, and the scorn that goes with it.
Successive years of paltry price growth, depressed by powerful phenomena from demographic shifts to globalisation and technological change, have not yet killed the anticipation that the tide will finally turn. When it does, such prophets foretell, central banks will be caught unawares...
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