Gross Backs Krugman View of Fed on Hold in Weak Inflation World

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When it comes to weak inflation, 2014 will have proved to be a banner year.

For the first time in at least 55 years, not one advanced economy will see consumer prices growing more than 4 percent this year. Even as recently as 2011, a quarter of rich nations recorded a rate at or higher than that.