inflation
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Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $115, which is around the same price the shirts cost today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
That’s due to concerns about America’s growing debt and federal budget deficit, uncertainty around how new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh plans to tame inflation and as tech companies fuel a corporate-bond issuance boom.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The latest readings of consumer inflation and the Fed's preferred gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, have shown an attenuation, but levels remain well above the two-percent target.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Minutes released on Wednesday by the Federal Reserve, which sets US interest rates, revealed that concerns over inflation deepened among policymakers at its last meeting.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
College graduates have received steady pay increases over the past two decades, while the pay of everyone else has risen little more than the rate of inflation.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
He added: “I know I could not have been so calm through depressions, inflations, banking and currency crises, wars and political disruptions.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
Dr Chris Provan, the chair of RCGPs in Scotland, said: "Nationally, many GP practices are experiencing dire financial headwinds owing to historic underinvestment, the impact of inflations, and the impending national insurance contributions."
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025
But Sotheby’s lawyers said that, while Rybolovlev and Sazonov had reason to be angry, they should blame themselves for failing to take reasonable measures to protect Rybolovlev from any price inflations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
The second round showed inflations of between 28% and 42%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Not with balloons and their cumbrous inflations, but with machines capable of carrying the load, and traveling by displacement of the air at high velocities.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 by Various
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