stagflation
Example Sentences
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His predecessor’s tenure was “defined by the misery known as ‘stagflation’—high inflation and low growth,” the president wrote in these pages last month.
What it says about America: A country facing deindustrialization and stagflation turned toward escapist glamour and pop songs that fused funk, soul and R&B—and got people on the dance floor.
Stephen Douglass, chief economist at NISA, noted that Powell highlighted diminishing stagflation risks, with both upside risks to inflation and downside risks to employment easing.
From Barron's
Meanwhile, long-term interest rates and mortgage rates would be soaring and the economy would be faced with stagflation and a deepening housing-market slump.
From MarketWatch
When officials confronted a similar dilemma, during the so-called stagflation of the 1970s, the central bank’s stop-and-go response allowed high inflation to become entrenched.
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