inflation
Example Sentences
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A worrisome trading pattern in the roughly $30 trillion Treasury market points to concerns about the economy and inflation.
It raises them when it is worried about inflation, hoping higher borrowing costs will ease spending and slow down price rises.
From BBC
“Until higher oil prices bleed over into higher inflation expectations, to us, it hasn’t translated into a stagflation environment yet.”
From MarketWatch
The standard advice for a central bank facing a supply shock is to look past it, concluding that the hit to growth and the boost to inflation roughly cancel out.
Drivers are paying sharply more at the pumps, and that risks lifting households’ near- and longer-term inflation expectations.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
