Previous governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia Glenn Stevens in the Australian press today

(article came out overnight)

  • An unexpected pick-up in inflation measures could see "markets flip from their current scepticism" that central banks couldn't hit their targets "to worries about them being exceeded"
  • remarkable "how little compensation" investors were accepting for the risk of inflation being much higher
  • "Central bankers, for their part, would welcome a bit more inflation - that has been their avowed aim. Thus far, however, market pricing seems to embody doubts that they will be successful."

Article is here for more (may be gated): Global markets complacent over inflation risks