Summers warns about inflation complacency and bond declines


NEW YORK: Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warns against any sense of achievement by policymakers in bringing inflation down notably from its peak last year and predicts a further selloff in bonds as investors adjust to the need for more monetary tightening.

“Nobody ever thought we were an underlying 8% inflation country,” Summers said on Bloomberg Television’s Wall Street Week with David Westin.

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