With or without her right-hand man, Ms Rousseff will have to act decisively if these expectations of inflation are not to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
无论罗塞夫的得力助手在不在，如果对于通胀的预期成为泡影，那么她都必须果敢地采取行动。
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A one-off rise in prices would not produce a sustained increase in inflation, unless it boosts firms' and workers' expectations of future inflation, which can become self-fulfilling.