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"Transitory" is a deceptively clever phrase. It implies the situation will go back to normal, or even reverse. Truthfully, it just means the increased rate of change in inflation is expected to decrease. Reminds me of a second derivative.


Inflation is a rate. If the rate is transitory, who is being deceptive?


It's the rate of the rate of change that transitory is referring to. The average person, I suspect, isn't thinking about it in these terms.




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