Monthly inflation pulls a donut

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TD Securities monthly inflation for December is out and pulled a donut for the month and 1.5% for the year, crashing from 2.2% in November. The trimmed mean reading was 0.1% month on month and +1.7% year on year:

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Inflation absent.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.