complicate
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A sustained rise in energy costs, combined with sticky inflation, complicates the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates.
From Barron's
That would complicate the job for the Federal Reserve and other major central banks, which have cut interest rates in recent years under the assumption that the worst of postpandemic inflation was behind them.
But for Netflix, such a deal would have complicated the business model for a company that had already vaulted to a leading position in Hollywood on its strength as a streaming pure-play.
This is a simplification, of course—certainly, taxes can be complicated by write offs and different income types.
The rapid ascent and large variety of prediction markets has presented new challenges to regulators and complicated the surveillance of suspicious trades.
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