inflation
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Sustained higher inflation could push rates up, but the weakness of the UK's jobs market and sluggish economic growth in general means this is by no means certain.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
Even with their own costs rising, businesses so far have not tried to pass all of these new expenses along to their customers, who are resistant to paying more after five years of higher inflation.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Prices charged by American producers continued to charge higher in May, the Labor Department said Thursday, marking another month of elevated wholesale inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
"Whatever happens, our job is to make sure that inflation gets back to the 2% target after the initial impact of the war on energy prices has passed," he added.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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