Captain Glenn turns doomsayer on global inflation

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Via Captain Glenn in his new role as hedge fund seer:

Former Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens says global investors have become complacent about the risks of a sharp rise in inflation that would have “considerable implications” for financial markets.

An unexpected pick-up in inflation measures could see “markets flip from their current scepticism” that central banks couldn’t hit their targets “to worries about them being exceeded”, Mr Stevens said, his first major comments on financial markets and the global economy since retiring from the central bank a year ago,

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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.