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This time it is the inflation bubble, particularly in commodities.
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Then again, as the Bank of England has reminded us, it has often been "special factors" pushing inflation up in the past few years - particularly, big changes in the price of oil and other commodities.
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Speaking at the Bloomberg Link Inflation Conference, portfolio managers Lincoln Ellis of Linn Group and Jennifer Fan of Arrowhawk Capital, along with MIT Professor Roberto Rigobon, made the case for a new normal in the commodities complex, particularly as it relates to food and agricultural products.
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And other commodities have also been climbing in what has been a particularly strong year, though most prices still remain well short of levels seen during the commodities surge of 2007-08 that helped precipitate the global recession.
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The materials to make plastics have been particularly high in recent months due to a general rise in the cost of commodities.
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The recent populist uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa have had a particularly interesting impact on the rise of commodities prices.
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While commodities are generally quite responsive to macro events, gold has been particularly targeted by investors in times of intense stress and high uncertainty.
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You should have noted that in the mid-1980s prices for agricultural commodities on which New Zealand depended hit their lowest level ever (thanks to agricultural subsidies, particularly in Europe and America).
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"A further slowdown in China would affect commodity exporters in the region particularly strongly, since, with the exception of Timor-Leste, China is their major trade-partner in commodities, " the World Bank said in its latest report on the region.
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