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US inflation shows signs of cooling

Inflation in the US is running at 5.3%, slightly down on July's year-on-year figure.

Inflation in the US is running at 5.3%, slightly down on July's year-on-year figure. Robert Reich is a Professor of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley and a Secretary of Labour under President Clinton, and he talks us through the latest data. The plane maker Boeing says it expects that it will take another two and a half years for global aviation to return to pre-pandemic levels; we hear from its Chief Strategy Officer, Marc Allen. Also in the programme, there are suggestions that pasta prices could rise by 50% owing to a shortage of wheat. Tosin Jack is commodity intelligence manager at price analysis company Mintec Global, and explains the background. Plus, the ±«Óãtv's Vivienne Nunis reports on the changing face of tourism in Kenya. (Picture: Fruit prices in a supermarket. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Tue 14 Sep 2021 22:32GMT

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