Are commodites an inflation hedge?

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It’s like we’ve come full circle in two years to the last commodities bubble after Russia invaded Ukraine. Zoltan Pozsar became briefly famous by declaring Bretton Woods III was upon us before commodities crashed and he disappeared.

A new crop of commodity interlopers is upon us:

Aggregate bond indices are up in most countries on an annual basis. But the broadening commodity rally threatens to feed into global inflation and kickstart another bond selloff.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.