creeping inflation

Taking the rate of creeping inflation into account, German parties have had a hard time to keep up their previous spending levels.

Creeping inflation began galloping; fighting it became a priority worldwide.

In an era of creeping inflation, this is almost as astounding as digital sound itself.

Your "creeping inflation" has crept downward by .4 percent in the last reporting period.

Those who are disadvantaged suffer particularly from creeping inflation, which I therefore regard as being socially unacceptable.

Creeping inflation and increased economic activity helped raise the prices of such important commodities as gold and copper.

"It is very difficult to deal with creeping inflation, because there is no popular support for stopping it."

"The combination of slow income growth and creeping inflation is one of the reasons it is very difficult to be optimistic about consumer spending."

What does seem clear is that the two-decade episode of creeping inflation can mainly be traced to missteps by past administrations and the Fed.

I have managed pretty much on my own to survive a big-league depression, numerous recessions, creeping inflations, and even a couple of phases.

But the pernicious nature of the damage caused by this war goes unnoticed except for passing references to the creeping inflation that comes in its train.

With the euro zone crisis, Serbia, as other Balkan countries, sees high debt, creeping inflation and falling exports.

"Creeping inflation," Albert Wojnilower, a senior economic adviser at Craig Drill Capital, calls it.

The bond market generally dislikes inflation like poison but faced with the alternative they are buying this low interest rate and creeping inflation package to save the banks.

As James's reign progressed, his government faced growing financial pressures, due partly to creeping inflation but also to the profligacy and financial incompetence of James's court.

The President should point out that Germany is also in the midst of a recession with sky-high interest rates and creeping inflation - problems already encountered here and solved.

The plus is that most economists say they do not detect the kinds of imbalances - creeping inflation, production bottlenecks or over leveraging - that could short-circuit the recovery.

Some of those resulted from creeping inflation and the decreasing purchasing power of the royal income, but James's profligacy and financial incompetence substantially contributed to the mounting debt.

Italy is suffering from a galloping trade deficit and creeping inflation, and the lira, never the sturdiest of currencies, would not buy Baltic Avenue at current exchange rates.

Moreover, the unemployment rates with which post-war creeping inflations were associated were well below the rates which even the most sanguine of Keynesians would have regarded as feasible minima.

D1 Inflation Barely Creeping Inflation, once the bane of the economy but these days only a minor irritant, barely budged last month, and for all of 1997 showed its smallest increase in 11 years.

The reasons behind creeping inflation are many: oil, Russia's prime export and a quarter of gross domestic product, is hitting record prices, and the country is awash in export revenue, money that has flowed to companies and workers right down the chain.

ECONOMIC UPDATE - Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, blew cool air on worries about creeping inflation, expressing optimism that 17 consecutive increases in short-term rates may be enough to fend off inflation.

Creeping inflation during the 1950s and 1960s and periods of rapid inflation in the 1970s and 1980s reduced real values while the Conservative administration of the 1980s at first reduced the government's borrowing requirement and then, during three years, ran a fiscal surplus and repaid debt.