Inflation: Why is it higher than expected in the US?

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  Hello and welcome to Business Matters.

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  I'm Roger Hearing on the program today, US Inflation higher than expected.

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  So what does that mean for consumers and interest rates.

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  We also hear from a giant Indian tire maker on doing business in America, rather wedded to tariffs.

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  Also the big and increasingly profitable business of refillable water bottles

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  and Brazil's plan to become a major exporter of cannabis.

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  And I'll be joined throughout the program by two guests on opposite sides of the world.

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  Diane Brady, executive editorial director at Fortune, who's joining us on the line from New York.

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  Diane, a very good evening to you.

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  Good evening to you too.

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  Good to have you with us across the other side of the world.

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  Ashoka Rahman, principal economist at the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh,

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