Keeping interest rates low discouraged capital inflows and encouraged asset price inflation.

Fourteen countries attended to discuss food price inflation, energy needs, etc.

While it persisted, expenditures swelled but were manageable until, suddenly, energy prices collapsed.

Yet, along with good asset price inflation, aimed at making people feel richer and spend more, these approaches have delivered bad inflation, owing to surging commodity prices, which impose a tax on both inputs and consumers.

Unemployment in those areas increases and the prices for scarce goods tend to enter an inflationary spiral, increasing the cycle of misery.

On 17 April 2007, CPI inflation was reported at 3.1 (inflation of the Retail Prices Index was 4.8 ).

With little wage inflation, high goods inflation is unlikely.

The Inflation of Hugo Chávez

The situation got big.

Does not enlarge government.

One reason for a rise in the interest rate would be a shift from low deflation to low inflation.

Emerging studies on the risk taking and asset price inflation engendered by ultra low policy rates will eventually convince Fed policymakers to change their stance.

It's a process of academic inflation.

It's a process of academic inflation.

shut up. Don't make a fuss.

None of these measures was uncontroversial nor did they prevent the impact of today s global food price inflation.

Government stabilization of the banking system can either be international, provoking complaints by outraged taxpayers about subsidizing others, or national, but only at the cost of greatly extended regulation of capital movements.

If anything, inflation is now falling further globally as commodity prices adjust downward in response to weak global growth. And gold is following the fall in actual and expected inflation.

The essential role of asset inflation has been especially visible as a result of the housing bubble, which also highlights the role of monetary policy.

But it was too little too late. By 1998, when CPI inflation began to fall, producer prices had already been declining for eight months, and remained negative for a total of 51 months, with CPI growth beginning to recover after 39 months.

Ordinarily, as the world comes out of a downturn and global interest rates rise, at least one or two emerging market countries suffers a spectacular blowup.

But there is a deeper problem that has been overlooked the US economy relies upon asset price inflation and rising indebtedness to fuel growth.

Third, the secular decline in their commodity prices had resulted in a debt overhang that siphoned off scarce resources that could otherwise have been used to fight poverty.

In college, we've got cost inflation in higher education that dwarfs cost inflation in medical care.

Cause of general inflation due to cost of living.

That was what happened in the case of grade creep.

The principle disease here is goitre.

Many firms during the bubble had no hope of making enough money in the short run to justify their sky high stock prices.

If that swung by two percentage points as the government and the central bank want to a positive 1 inflation rate, the interest rate would also increase by about two percentage points.

If the BOJ were to succeed in raising inflation expectations, long term interest rates would necessarily have to reflect a correspondingly higher inflation premium.

As the home lending boom took hold, it became self reinforcing. Greater home buying pushed up housing prices, which made banks feel that it was safe to lend money to non creditworthy borrowers.

For once, over employment is politically justified.

Europe s growing cocaine problem is due to several factors.

The finance minister claims that there is no structural inflation.

Grade creep A term used to express artificial inflation in the grades of posts.

For example, they try to squeeze as much as possible out of land sales, thereby pushing up housing prices and helping to inflate asset bubbles.

As exchange markets became ever bigger during the past 20 years, most commentators assumed that central banks ability to influence exchange rates through intervention had shrunk radically.

Rapid population growth means a bulging youth population.

The list of tasks that both the international community and the PA itself have set for the immediate future is highly ambitious, if not unrealistic.

There has been a proliferation of monitoring requirements in recent years.

Annual GDP growth slowed significantly in the last quarter, to 4.4 , consumer price inflation is high, and the current account and budget deficits last year were too large.

Although the United States does not have a formal inflation target, financial markets understand that the Fed aims for an inflation rate close to 2 .

Until there is a Palestinian state and an Iraq free of US occupation, Islamic extremists will win recruits.

Increased poverty had, in turn, caused the number of internally displaced persons to swell.

Inflated results started coming in and the mob was starting to get out of control.