stagflation
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The economy was undergoing stagflation and the public fisc had just been rescued by the International Monetary Fund.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
The parallels to today, while not exact, are interesting; along with the Iran hostage crisis, stagflation ended up destroying Jimmy Carter’s presidency.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
Citi’s team of quantitative analysts have studied the market and say, it’s beginning to smell like stagflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
The strategists studied four previous stagflation clusters: the mid-’70s “Great Inflation” episode, a subsequent shorter phase in the early 1980s, briefly in the global financial crisis and the post-2020 period.
From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026
Since then growth has somewhat recovered, and stagflation has been redefined and now is properly understood as a bad �trade-off� of both inflation and unemployment.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing stagflation
Economics
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American History - Middle School
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