inflation
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After inflation surged, the Fed raised interest rates and began to shrink its balance sheet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But in a Midwestern city like St. Louis, prices over that time period have only gone up about 6% when adjusted for inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
A recent report by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said tariffs cannot fully explain resilient and persistent 3%-plus inflation for core personal-consumption expenditures inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Investors remain anxious about stubbornly high inflation, mounting federal debt, a deluge of corporate borrowing to fund artificial-intelligence investments, and a new Federal Reserve chairman whose approach to setting interest rates remains enigmatic to many.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
After Grandpa died, most of the money was lost, and after the Great War and inflation there was nothing left at all.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
He added: “I know I could not have been so calm through depressions, inflations, banking and currency crises, wars and political disruptions.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
Dr Chris Provan, the chair of RCGPs in Scotland, said: "Nationally, many GP practices are experiencing dire financial headwinds owing to historic underinvestment, the impact of inflations, and the impending national insurance contributions."
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025
But Sotheby’s lawyers said that, while Rybolovlev and Sazonov had reason to be angry, they should blame themselves for failing to take reasonable measures to protect Rybolovlev from any price inflations.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2024
The second round showed inflations of between 28% and 42%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Her nose was small, but struck many as the prettiest feature of her face, so exquisite was the moulding of it, and so eloquent and so graceful the slight inflations of the transparent nostrils.
From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
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