cost-push

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This is what economists call a cost-push shock: Rising input costs work through the supply chain, lifting intermediary material costs and overheads.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

But Sheana Yue, senior economist at Oxford Economics, told AFP that "this type of energy-driven cost-push inflation is unlikely to generate sustained reflationary pressures without meaningful demand recovery".

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

A weak yen fuels cost-push inflation and reduces households’ purchasing power, rather than the demand-led growth policymakers are targeting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration has approved a substantial economic stimulus package, and Takaichi has said she wants to see 2% inflation backed by wage growth, not by cost-push factors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

It will include measures to protect people from cost-push inflation, back sustainable wage and income growth, promote domestic investment to spur growth, reform to overcome dwindling populations, and encourage infrastructure investment.

From Reuters • Sep. 25, 2023