inflation
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“A diplomatic resolution could ease energy-driven inflation pressures, which could weigh on Treasury yields and improve the appeal of non-yielding assets such as gold,” Critical Metals’ Tony Sage says in an email.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
“You’re outpacing inflation, which is good, but you’re not going to make a killing off it,” says Cory Windelspecht.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
“Higher energy prices are pushing inflation higher and some of that will seep through to core inflation in the coming months,” Pearce writes.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
Still, he added, “our assumption is that inflation will come.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing inflation
Human Geography - High School
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