Unemployment is unacceptably high, and is still rising.

Inflation in Iran is rising, perhaps to as high as 20 .

But inflation remains high or rising, so more tightening is imposed.

High and rising inflation creates great costs and is difficult to reverse.

The Obama administration seems surprised and disappointed with high and rising joblessness.

In particular, thanks to massive liquidity, energy prices are now rising too high too soon.

Such circumstances include, first, a high debt GDP ratio, with rising interest rates impeding growth.

America s internal and external deficits remain large, and its unemployment rate is both high and rising.

And, given rising global demand for oil, particularly in developing countries, energy import prices will remain high.

In Egypt and Greece, for example, rising poverty, high unemployment, and financial turmoil could place governments under pressure.

The year began with rising food, oil, and commodity prices, giving rise to the specter of high inflation.

Indeed, except for deflation ridden Japan, central bankers could meet just about anywhere and see high and rising inflation.

At least two of the reasons for high and rising home prices in the United States are well understood.

High and rapidly rising home prices tend to stimulate new housing supply, which in turn tends to undermine prices.

Other contributory factors were high domestic liquidity and low, albeit gently rising, interest rates, which enhanced domestic demand expansion.

Gold prices started to rise sharply in the first half of 2008, when emerging markets were overheating, commodity prices were rising, and there was concern about rising inflation in high growth emerging markets.

Rising incomes require rising productivity.

Despite a recovery in asset prices in many countries and the deceleration of negative growth, unemployment is high and rising.

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Record high food and energy prices, combined with sharply rising wages in China, are pushing up inflation in much of the world.

If interest rates on US Treasury securities were high and rising rapidly as the debt grew, I would agree with this argument.

Most ordinary Syrians face extremely difficult economic and social conditions, including high unemployment, rising food prices, constraints on personal freedom, and endemic corruption.

Those experiencing rising and now double digit inflation will have to raise interest rates, while other high inflation countries will lose export competitiveness.

Rising oil prices, unforeseen tsunami related expenditures and revenue shortfalls in the tourism sector are creating significant fiscal pressures at alarmingly high levels.

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Deficits are riskier if the level of the national debt, the accumulation of all previous deficits, is high or rapidly rising relative to GDP.

Fiscal austerity helped to reverse the rising trend in public debt, and then reduced it to more manageable levels (debt nonetheless remains comparatively high).

The number of young women engaging in prostitution, especially among internally displaced persons, is rising because of the high level of unemployment and poverty.

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a reversal of the country s now rising income inequality lowering the very high savings level relative to investment and thus reducing the current account surplus

The factors that drove the Putin era of rapid economic growth high and rising oil prices, cheap labor, and unused production capacity are all exhausted.

In three years, we may well see labor shortages, rising wages, and increasing prices in expanding sectors, accompanied by high unemployment elsewhere in the economy.

Other significant changes relate to income distribution, with average income rising and growing in the high end and the low end segments of the market.

It is generally believed that in a high employment and high growth environment workers with accumulated knowledge and skills can usefully be deployed from declining industries to rising industries, leading to the optimal allocation of labour.

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But, while growth is not likely to stop any time soon, Russia s economic success increasingly hinges not only on high but rising oil and gas prices.

In fact, the monetary union has become a political and economic nightmare, plagued by recession, record high unemployment, social unrest, and rising distrust among member states.

If there is a warm layer of air higher up, an inversion can prevent thermals from rising high and the air is said to be stable.

As a result, Europe will remain a net energy importer. And, given rising global demand for oil, particularly in developing countries, energy import prices will remain high.

Yet, despite talk of a rising Asia, only a handful of East Asian economies have moved from low to high income status during the past several decades.

While the US no longer suffers from rising unemployment, the current 9.5 jobless rate is very high for the US, roughly double its level before the recession.

In principle, governments could bridge the gap, but high (and rising) debt constrains their capacity to do so (though how constrained is a matter of heated debate).