surge of inflation

The surge of inflation has placed renewed pressure on the exchange rate.

This decrease occurred despite a tremendous surge of inflation during that period.

Several Fed officials expressed the hope that the slowdown would help prevent a surge of inflation.

And the continuing surge of inflation, which is running about 20 percent a month, threatens prospects for continued recovery.

That the subsequent inevitable surge of inflation won't hurt?

That would probably prompt a surge of inflation, causing the Fed to increase interest rates, choking growth.

A surge of inflation could change that.

But while many prices are indeed rising at a faster rate, economists say there is no reason to expect a major surge of inflation anytime soon.

In fact, the British Government's main worry now is that the buoyant economy will overheat, touching off a surge of inflation.

At the end of 1988, in reaction to a surge of inflation caused by accelerated price reforms, the leadership introduced an austerity program.

This, in turn, intensified conjecture that the Federal Reserve might soon raise interest rates another notch to head off a possible surge of inflation.

Some economists saw signs that prices were rising at a faster rate, but they said they did not expect a major surge of inflation anytime soon.

The Government expects a surge of inflation this winter as it ends almost all price controls and slashes subsidies to consumers and industries.

To prevent a new surge of inflation, interest and mortgage rates remained abnormally high throughout 1983, delaying a recovery in construction and housing.

The index and other data issued by the Commerce Department today also provided some further reassurance that a surge of inflation is unlikely in the immediate future.

Its chairman, Alan Greenspan, told Congress yesterday that the second-quarter surge of inflation, as reported Wednesday, seemed "a bit surprising."

By raising expectations in his speech announcing the agreement a week ago, Mr. Salinas has encouraged demands that could lead to a new surge of inflation.

Today's employment report jolted the stock and bond markets as it raised new concerns about the possibility of a surge of inflation from a rapidly growing economy.

Economists see the Federal Reserve's moves more as preventative steps against a surge of inflation than as attempts to arrest the relatively low current inflation.

To prove his point, the government moved decisively to halt a worrying surge of inflation by raising its benchmark overnight interest rate to a dizzying 26.5 percent.

D17 Drug war debate focuses on financing D17 Argentina's recent surge of inflation is slowing down, but its economic future is still worrisome, experts said.

They could allow the dollar to slide, which would devastate export industries in Europe and Japan, and send a surge of inflation through the American economy.

After an initial (and significant) surge of inflation, President Harry S. Truman's war mobilization effort began to achieve some success in stabilizing the American economy.

Fed Takes a Pause The Fed had been raising interest rates for more than a year to slow the economy and head off a possible surge of inflation.

Mexicans are bracing for a new surge of inflation as the Government implements measures that include price increases of at least 79 percent on gasoline, electricity, phone calls and sugar.