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The stealth tax no one notices

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has admitted that “inflation could be higher and more persistent than we expected”. New inflation readings suggest that this time he is right. The Fed’s preferred measure of inflation has hit its highest level in three decades. The core personal consumption

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