inflation
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Workers asked for a wage increase of more than 4% for the next year of their contract to keep pace with inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Materials inflation that is tough to offset isn’t a positive for any company.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Consumer inflation accelerated to 3.8% in April, the highest reading in three years, while core prices, excluding food and energy prices, rose at a 2.8% rate.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
The rate of food price rises is currently 3.7% - while the overall rate of inflation stood at 3.3% in March.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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