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The best laid schemes of mice and men wrote Scottish poet Robert Burns gang aft a glee.

As we had into 2018 there are two phenomena which were either of them to return in any meaningful way

would completely change the entire dynamic of bond and equity markets, interest rates,

commodity prices, even Bitcoin and most certainly render the best laid plans of men, if

not mice, well and truly a glade.

Last week, in part one of our two-part look at what lies beyond in 2018, we looked at the first of these, volatility.

However, there is another force which, when unleashed, as the world found out the hardware in the 1970s, can completely upend every asset class on the planet

and make fools of central bankers. And as we head into 2018, the first traces of it can clearly be seen and felt everywhere.

This week, on Adventures in Finance, the Return of inflation. Today is the 21st of December 2017 somehow and welcome to

episode 47 of Adventures in Finance. To my right, my poor beleaguered, but trusty

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