As business expansions mature, the Fed increasingly worries about economic overheating and serious inflation.
Risk mismatches will complicate Fed policy when rates must rise to prevent serious inflation.
That means we'll see serious inflation when we emerge from the recession.
Though the aim is to assist in thawing the credit markets, which became frozen after the subprime mortgage crisis, it runs the risk of causing serious inflation once economic growth resumes.
These states are just beginning to face the internal consequences: serious inflation, major declines in their workers' standard of living, destruction of people's savings, bankruptcies of otherwise-solvent businesses and inflammation of political and ethnic tensions.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who headed our central bank from 1979--87, warned months ago that what is happening reminds him of the early 1970s, when serious inflation first hit the U.S. and global economies.
Three decades have passed since the last serious American inflation was vanquished by Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker.
We're in for the most serious bout of inflation since the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
But it hoped the increase would send a message that it was serious about controlling inflation.
On the other hand, it is not clear yet that the Fed is really serious about fighting inflation.
It raised its main interest rate to 4.25% on July 3rd to show that it was serious about controlling inflation, which is well above its target ceiling of 2%.
The White House could also urge Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve to get more serious about fighting inflation by mopping up some of the excess liquidity that he and predecessor Alan Greenspan spawned.
This is our old friend, "helicopter money", which Wadhwani believes could help boost economic activity without causing serious problems for inflation. (In fact, he first proposed this with another economist Michael Dicks in 2011).
Rates so low seem to be depressing the dollar and pushing commodity prices upward, and the central bankers might be expected to try to tighten up their monetary policy if there was any serious signs of inflation or if the economy wasn't seen teetering on the verge of recession.
And in the 1970s, when we had a pretty serious economic crisis with inflation and interest rates at 21%, there was a demand for an audit.
This is why income disparity has constantly grown since the US exited the gold standard and inflation became a serious threat.
The positive numbers could lead to rate hikes in the near-term if Russia is serious about eliminating its persistent inflation threat.
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And after two bumper years, the government says it has enough wheat and rice in store to prevent serious food-grain price inflation.
Bonds aside, inflation is a serious problem, one people drastically underestimate.
Some other strains of inflation have more serious economic effects.
But even as Poland scrapes through the economic downturn in Europe relatively unscathed, rising wages mean that inflation is becoming a serious problem.
It is something that will have to be corrected as we return to normal in credit markets, or accelerating inflation will become a serious concern.
Indeed, the consequences of large increases in asset prices can be much more serious for economies than consumer-price inflation.
With average money market rates under 1 percent, inflation over 3 percent is a serious problem.
The Bank would only choose to do that, of course, if it feared that inflation was rearing its ugly head in a serious way.
There are no serious plans to curb government spending the main cause of inflation by, for instance, pulling the Zimbabwean army out of Congo's civil war.
The Carli formula - which is used to generate nearly 30% of the RPI - has some strengths, but is not used by any other serious statistical body in the world because it tends systematically to overstate inflation, especially when prices for a certain good are highly variable.
The ice is what he called the risk of a serious slowdown in global economic growth, the fire is the fact that inflation may be back.
Serious economic dislocations are emerging due to a 30-percent rate of inflation, a nationwide cash squeeze, shortages in foreign exchange and raw materials (particularly coal), and massive corruption.
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