Jim O'Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, has recently been sounding out the US bank's clients over their inflation fears.
The results are striking. Nine-tenths of the companies questioned report feeling worried. But the number fretting about inflation is similar to those concerned about deflation - with almost no one sitting on the fence.
Welcome to the disorientating investor landscape of 2009. Just three years ago, when the world's big investment banks made inflation forecasts, economists got excited if they varied by a half a percentage point.
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