COVER STORY INVESTING NICOLA FIELD
A TRIP TO the supermarket is fast becoming an eyebrow raiser as we're asked to cough up a lot more for the basics, let alone luxuries. But prices won't keep rising indefinitely.
Continually rising prices are not something Australians are used to. Inflation is rampant in countries such as Zimbabwe (230%), Argentina (98.8%) and Pakistan (31.5%). Australia had coasted along with inflation at a barely perceptible 2%-3% for many years. That's all changed in the past 18 months.
Inflation is measured by changes
