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Why tech will pump up inflation

People have been warning about inflation taking off ever since central banks started printing money on a vast scale in the wake of the financial crash of 2008-2009. This year it finally happened. In the UK, prices are already rising by more than 7% a year, the fastest rate in three decades. And that is mild compared with much of the rest of the world. In the US,

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