Inflation will eventually come down, but not rapidly or in the way it would have in previous years. So says Sharon Bell, managing director and senior European equity strategist at Goldman Sachs. She tells Merryn Somerset Webb on this week’s Merryn Talks Money that the reason for this state of affairs is specifically the tight labor market, and more broadly the demographics of the Western world.

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Wanted — your questions. Merryn and John will be doing an AMA (Ask Me/Us Anything) session at 1pm on May 24 — which also happens to be the day the UK’s next monthly inflation data reading comes out — over on the UK Markets Today blog. So what do you want to ask us? Send your questions to jstepek2@bloomberg.net. The earlier you send them, the better the odds you’ll get a sensible answer.

Inflation will eventually come down, but not rapidly or in the way it would have in previous years. So says Sharon Bell, managing director and senior European equity strategist at Goldman Sachs. She tells Merryn Somerset Webb on this week’s Merryn Talks Money that the reason for this state of affairs is specifically the tight labor market, and more broadly the demographics of the Western world. Sign up to John Stepek's daily newsletter Money Distilled. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/uk-wealth" data-destination="rte:bind">https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/uk-wealth</a> Wanted — your questions. Merryn and John will be doing an AMA (Ask Me/Us Anything) session at 1pm on May 24 — which also happens to be the day the UK’s next monthly inflation data reading comes out — over on the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/uk-markets-today" data-destination="https://www.bloomberg.com/latest/uk-markets-today">UK Markets Today blog.</a> So what do you want to ask us? Send your questions to <a href="mailto:jstepek2@bloomberg.net" data-destination="mailto:rte:bind">jstepek2@bloomberg.net</a>. The earlier you send them, the better the odds you’ll get a sensible answer.

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Inflation Will Fall, Just Not the Way You Think

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