America's economy limped forward in 2010, but global growth last year was above the average for the previous decade. And that helped sustain a steady rise in commodity prices.

美国的经济在2010年止步不前，但是去年全球经济增长率比上个十年(2000—2010)的平均值要高，这就确保了物价的稳定上升。

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The drop in commodity prices may raise the specter of deflation, but gold prices are holding pretty steady, so I doubt this will happen.

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Yet some of the whiff of inflation has dispersed on account of a collapse in commodity prices leaving the path clear for steady monetary policy for as far as the eye can see.

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