Word Finder - inflation

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An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.

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The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

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An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.

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A decline in the value of money.

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An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.

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Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.

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An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.

Governments respond to that inflation by freezing prices.

The annual fuel escalator was set in 1993 at 3% above the rate of inflation.

The new status quo has received considerable support from low inflation which has helped to moderate wage claims.

In bonds, they bet that interest rates will remain low, inflation benign and borrower default levels at unusually low rates.

Journal price inflation is still running at about 8% per year.

They have cummerbunds, pockets, etc., but all the inflation is at the back.

But if we have deflation which is not countered by inflation then we would be doing exactly the wrong thing.

This theory is based upon adaptive expectations people base their expectations of inflation on past levels of inflation.

If there is a change in inflation expectations in the economy we see a shift in the Phillips Curve.

This in turn will put upward pressure on inflation and may make the MPC more hesitant to cut interest rates.

We have given operational independence to the Bank of England to set interest rates to achieve the Government's target for inflation.

We conclude with methods of reducing the cost of inflation swaps through conditional indexation on the coverage ratio of a fund.

Twenty years later such records still surface in specialist reggae auctions and set sales at prices which have rapidly outstripped inflation.

It justifies these demands by persuading them that they are suffering from unmanageable debt and galloping inflation.

The free market forces they support would mean soaring inflation, rising prices and growing unemployment.

The Interest rate cuts could stave off recession temporarily but risk creating runaway inflation and a collapse in the dollar.

During the 1980s, people were menaced by double-digit inflation, trade union power and the Cold War.

A trade deficit during an economic boom helps to reduce demand-pull inflation.

The rate of Dutch house-price inflation then slowed from 20% in 2000 to nearly zero by 2003.

The level of wage inflation, which has been low, will be reassessed at the start of 2006.

Economists divide them into two main groups, demand-pull and cost-push inflation.

Quot health services price of doing inflation says Kate don't require members.

Did you know Smoking 20 cigarettes a day over an average lifetime will cost you about £ 100,000 (allowing for inflation ).

Asset prices and Inflation Targetting Asset price misalignments are likely to pose a rather different kind of challenge.

For example, could our Universe exist on the inside of a single magnetic monopole produced by cosmic inflation?

He feels inflation will be kept under control due to relatively sluggish growth and favorable commodity prices.

An inflation force is used at each vertex to inflate the overall model, while surface tension attempts to keep the mesh spherical.

To maintain stability the MPC has an inflation target of 2½% .

Could an inflation target regime have been introduced earlier on in the 1980s, when the main arguments about the ERM were taking place?

Surprisingly, the interior of such a bubble is an infinite open universe in which inflation may occur.

Despite an increase in spending of £ 2.4 billion after inflation, NHS waiting lists have risen over the last year.

An authority on money inflation, he proposed that the purchasing power of the dollar be stabilized (see Dollar Stabilization).

The most important event of his second term was his veto of the Inflation Bill in 1874 followed by the passage of the Resumption Act in the following year.

There was a considerable party in favour of debasing the currency indefinitely by inflation, and a bill with that object was passed by Congress in April 1874.

In Laminariaceae the inflation of the ends of conducting cells gives rise to the so-called trumpet-hyphae.

While the efforts made to develop the agricultural and mineral resources of the country proved successful, the towns continued to suffer from the inflation - over-buying, over-building and over-speculation - which marked the war period.

They want to be protected from the ravages of inflation.

Inflation is steadily if slowly receding despite the alarmist warnings of many experts.

The increase reinstates the grant to the level two years ago, but without allowing for inflation.

The Guardian published a rather self-righteous piece entitled The myth of middle-class inflation.

Shortly after the start of World War II, faced with rapid price inflation, the British Woolworths abandoned their sixpenny price limit.

To maintain stability the MPC has an inflation target of 2½ %.

Cardiovascular Increases in systemic blood pressure, central venous pressure and heart rate have been reported immediately after tourniquet inflation.

To follow these we examine the Phillips Curve (the trade-off between unemployment and inflation).

Monetary policy would respond, but a large negative demand shock might result in an undershoot of the inflation target for some considerable time.

Has guided Turkey to single digit inflation, after four years of undershooting the target.

Underlying retail price inflation is forecast to go on undershooting the government 's target.

As inflation continues to rise and expenses for seemingly everything continue to soar, many couples are questioning the issue of expanding their growing family.

Gold holds its value for many years since it hedges against inflation or when the dollar (or other currency) falls.

Although bonds are free of call risk and event risk, they do fall prey to inflation risk and interest rate risk.