taming

Gumbinger said if the Fed achieves a so-called soft landing — taming inflation without causing a recession — he would expect mortgage rates to be in the mid-5% range by this time next year.

The rate of inflation has been ticking higher in 2024, raising concerns that the Federal Reserve could have a hard time taming inflation to its goal of 2%.

Yet, the Amazonians pushed their efforts even further, taming it into a true domesticated crop.

That raises the uncomfortable possibility that high interest rates are taking a toll on economic activity but not succeeding in fully taming inflation.

They cut off the misogynistic trope of “taming the shrew” by its ankles before it could walk.