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ACHTUNG! Highest German Inflation of Euro-Era

September 30, 2021 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

This Berlin woman, realizing that fuel costs money, is starting the morning fire with marks…’, Germany, ca 1920s. By Everett Collection @ Shutterstock.com

Germany’s inflation has climbed to a 29-year high of 4.1%. That’s higher than at any point during Germany’s participation in the euro currency bloc. This is perhaps most startling because of Germans’ traditional aversion to inflation, which is understandable after having undergone one of history’s worst hyper-inflations. Martin Anrold reports in The Financial Times:

German inflation hit 4.1 per cent in September, its highest level for 29 years, prompting some economists to question whether central bankers are right to assume the surge in prices is only temporary and will disappear next year.

The last time inflation in Germany was as high, Helmut Kohl was still chancellor, the Deutschemark was still in use and the country had only reunified a couple of years earlier, sending prices up sharply in the east.

“The worst is yet to come,” said Jörg Krämer, chief economist at Commerzbank, adding that even if price growth does slow somewhat next year, “in the long term, we expect an inflation problem for Germany and the euro area”.

The rise in German inflation, which was up from 3.4 per cent in August, mirrors a similar rise in Spanish inflation to a 13-year-high of 4 per cent in September. French inflation data, which was also reported on Thursday, rose less than expected but still hit a decade-high of 2.7 per cent.

With European energy prices rising sharply and supply chain bottlenecks sending shipping costs soaring and leaving manufacturers short of everything from steel to semiconductors, economists expect overall eurozone inflation to hit 3.3 per cent — its highest level since 2008 — when those figures are released on Friday.

German inflation was driven by an acceleration in annual energy price growth to 14.3 per cent, while goods prices rose 6.1 per cent, food prices were 4.9 per cent higher and services prices were up 2.5 per cent.

The German central bank has said inflation could approach 5 per cent this year before dropping back next year when one-off factors such as the reversal of last year’s value added tax cut drop out of the data. But the Bundesbank has also warned of “upside risks” to inflation.

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Jeremy Jones, CFA, CFP® is the Director of Research at Young Research & Publishing Inc., and the Chief Investment Officer at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. was ranked #5 in CNBC's 2021 Financial Advisor Top 100. Jeremy is also a contributing editor of youngresearch.com.
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