几十个州的利益都与零售物价指数挂钩,但官方承诺,在最坏的情况下将冻结诸如求职补贴和住房补贴。
Dozens of state benefits are pegged to the RPI, but officials have promised that handouts such as jobseeker's allowance and housing benefit will at worst be frozen.
但是,物价的每一次波动,总要影响到某些人的短期利益。
But every change in prices furthers the short-run interests of other people.
几乎在每次努力“稳定”物价的时候,总是把生产者的利益放在第一位的。
In nearly every effort to "stabilize" the price of a commodity, the interests of the producers have been put first.
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