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Inflation in 2018: How big is the monster under the bed?

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Most say it will be tame; but predicting it is 'murderously hard.'

Every adviser has a closet of anxieties, stuffed to the gills with brutal bear markets, roaring interest rates and blithering bitcoins. But one of the biggest monsters is probably insidious inflation, which gnaws at investment returns and devalues savings overnight.

With unemployment at 4.1%, infla

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