feed inflation

In the short term, this flood of new money has fed inflation, which is now 13 percent a year, several points above the community average.

But the greater spending can also feed inflation by putting pressure on wages and prices.

And by early 1987, with a growing budget deficit feeding inflation, the Government was urged to change its policy.

The additional consumption would feed inflation and ultimately raise interest rates.

But officials fear that further automatic wage increases could feed inflation.

But if the government tries to meet the demands at once, it will strain resources and feed inflation.

The biggest concern has been to prevent the economy from overheating in the coming months, which could feed inflation next year.

The government also began to address the interenterprise debt that had been feeding inflation.

But the rush to buy can itself push up prices, which, in turn, feeds inflation anxieties.

With the economy already operating at close to full capacity, such a tax cut could stimulate further growth and feed inflation, she reasoned.

Manufacturers of many basic materials have managed hefty price increases that feed inflation.

American casualties continued to mount while the heavy costs fed inflation at home and drained money from domestic programs.

The price increases, in turn, feed inflation, in a self-sustaining process.

The resulting imbalances have fed inflation and periodically interrupted economic reform.

It fears that cheaper money will feed inflation at a time its economy remains under pressure from the costs of reunification.

The shoemaker's boss does not have to increase prices, feeding inflation, to make possible a raise or a higher profit.

Higher oil prices also fed inflation concerns, driving up yields on longer-term debt.

A collapse of the dollar would feed inflation by making foreign goods more expensive in the United States.

He said he believed the economy was now roughly at the maximum level of employment possible without feeding inflation.

The Fed sought to brake economic expansion before it feeds inflation and to shore up the dollar.

Such a rapid expansion could have fed inflation by forcing companies to pay more for scarce materials and highly trained workers.

Fed officials also expressed little concern that any tax cuts would widen the budget deficit and feed inflation next year.

Weak world grain harvests and the oil embargo introduced shortages, which fed inflation.

"By dropping rates and stimulating the economy, you're just feeding inflation, which is not something the Federal Reserve wants to do."

This has sparked concern within the G20 that speculation is feeding inflation and aggravating poverty in poor countries.