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Negative surplus. Inflationary spiral uncheckable.
The Chancellor won't commit electoral suicide and the inflationary effect is considerable.
Gold dropped almost two dollars, in spite of the speculation about inflationary trends.
We live in inflationary times.
The fractional reserve system of monetary expansion is inherently inflationary.
In 1999, the two men combined forces to see if they could answer some of their problems with the inflationary model of what happened at the beginning.
And as we were going along the train ride, we began to imagine lots of possibilities, so that by the end, it seemed like a very exciting alternative to the standard Big Bang inflationary picture.
It's truly the case that when WMAP made its announcement, the way most people interpreted that announcement was, it's beautifully consistent with the Big Bang inflationary picture.
If we observe these gravitational waves in the Planck satellite, that will support the inflationary theory and rule out the cyclic picture.
Or we could have a front row seat for a new inflationary epoch.
So far just about every prediction made by inflationary theory has checked out in many, many observations.
Or should we subscribe to Andrei Linde's Swiss cheese model, and redefine the big bang as simply the inflationary energy of a mega-verse dying out?
C, a decrease in the velocity of money, or D, an increase in inflationary expectations?
The university won't let me switch my field of study to inflationary cosmology.
But four and a half billion dollars, even in these inflationary times, is a great deal of money.
We live in inflationary fuckin' times.
Or we could have a front-row seat for a new inflationary epoch.
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The dreaded inflationary endgame suddenly looms as a very real possibility.
But lower short-term interest rates have led to higher medium-term interest rates, which are more relevant for the mortgage market, perhaps because of increasing worries about inflationary pressures.
France's basic problem, like that of the countries most affected by the crisis, is that the wave of cheap credit that the euro's introduction made possible fueled an inflationary bubble that robbed it of its competitiveness.
Directing credit in order to increase supply of goods need not be inflationary; on the contrary, the increased supply of domestically produced goods may be an effective instrument for combating inflation.
Appropriate accounting, separating expenditures for recapitalizing banks from ordinary expenditures, such as those needed to run hospitals and schools, would make clear that these expenditures are not by themselves inflationary.
It is only the credit expansion that such expenditures allow which might be inflationary.
If inflationary expectations were changed, then disinflation could occur without the costly unemployment.
Spillover effects are inevitable, and once a corrosive increase in inflationary expectations sets in, it becomes all the more painful to unwind.
Trichet also makes his job more difficult for himself by talking up Europe's inflationary threat.
As European growth slows, so will inflationary pressures.
Nor is it inflationary if the wage increases are financed by higher taxes.
Rather than encourage the unions with exaggerated talk of strong European growth and inflationary excess - and disrespect them with threats and interventions - Trichet should speak softly and let nature take its course.
They would sustain false relative prices - the result of the inflationary credit bubble in the south that formed after the euro's adoption - that are preventing the euro's southern European countries from regaining competitiveness.
Indeed, until the recent renewed downturn in America and Europe, the emerging world's major policy concern was too much growth, mounting inflationary pressure, and economic overheating.
The public should be relieved if the ECB raises rates, because this would most likely signal that the long-awaited economic recovery is well under way, and that inflationary repercussions are being addressed.
Today, US authorities appear willing to contemplate any measure, no matter how inflationary, to insure that none of its major banks and investment houses fails.
True, low interest rates, together with a second round of quantitative easing, are causing considerable global distortions, as funds flow into fast-growing emerging markets, fueling inflationary pressure and asset bubbles.
If the US tips from mild recession into deep recession, the global deflationary implications will cancel out some of the inflationary pressures the world is facing.
At this point, inflationary expectations will increase, long-term government bond yields will rise, and the recovery will be crowded out.
In addition, the moderation of inflationary pressure as a result of slower growth and cooling global commodity markets will allow Chinese and other Asian policymakers to shift their focus from containing economic overheating to rebalancing growth.
The lessons of earlier battles against inflation are clear on one fundamental point: inflationary pressures cannot be contained by negative, or slightly positive, real short-term interest rates.
But, in an increasingly inflationary environment, any such efforts could fuel an outbreak of the dreaded wage-price spiral - the same lethal interplay that wreaked such havoc in the United States in the 1970's.
Put differently, these institutions do not offer a credible, non-inflationary, external source of strength.
If this is financed by cutbacks elsewhere in the budget, the main consequence will be only a re-distribution of government spending, which is not necessarily inflationary.