Inflation: could covid-19 cause prices to rise?

In the past two decades inflation has puzzled economists by remaining low in good times and bad. Could the pandemic cause it to rise? Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter to keep up to date with our latest coverage: https://econ.st/3aor3kg Find all of our finance and economics coverage: https://econ.st/3nsEfZm Read our special report about how inflation is losing its meaning as an economic indicator: https://econ.st/3noSaPY How to make economic policy fit for a world of low inflation: https://econ.st/2IWxy2u Why a surge in inflation due to the pandemic looks unlikely: https://econ.st/2KAfITk The World In 2021: governments must judge if the economic recovery needs more help: https://econ.st/37sscpj Why economists’ models of inflation are letting them down: https://econ.st/3gTULPA How most emerging markets overcame high inflation: https://econ.st/3gWOUZD Why the Fed made its biggest inflation-policy change in decades: https://econ.st/3oTAQD8