One alternative to slowing inflation by decreasing demand is to offer more goods for sale.
It is helping to slow inflation by making imports cheaper.
The Germans are expected to raise interest rates soon to slow growth and inflation, which should add support to the mark, weakening the dollar further.
To slow inflation, the liberalization of most prices will be suspended for the rest of the year.
This is intended to slow the economy and inflation, but will be likely to hurt the fight against unemployment.
Unable to slow inflation, the Government has concentrated on making it less cumbersome.
A stronger dollar also slows inflation by holding down prices of imported goods.
But some analysts said they were confident that the Fed would push interest rates higher to slow inflation.
Increasing rates is supposed to slow inflation in normal, or booming economies.
The higher loan rates would slow inflation by slowing the growth of an economy that lives on credit.