SBS On the Money: What is inflation?

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The Reserve Bank is tipped to lift official interest rates next week because inflation is too hot. SBS Finance Editor Ricardo Gonçalves speaks with Angela Jackson from Impact Economics to help explain the good and bad of inflation, and how interest rates can manage it; plus Guy Chambers from PwC on why electricity costs are rising and Matt Sherwood from Perpetual on the day on the markets.

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