There’s a rumor going around that the crowd’s worried about inflation. Tim Bond of Odey Asset Management speaks for many of this persuasion when he writes in the Financial Times that “the rise in inflation has been the main factor responsible for the sharp slowdown in global growth since the start of the year.” Normally, worrying about pricing pressures is an accurate description of how the capital markets respond to higher inflation expectations, and rightly so. Inflation is a corrosive force that eats into wealth. But these aren’t normal times.