Stock ownership helps combat inflation, and most responsible investors should have some exposure to stocks now.
Such a move would put pressure on the FOMC to combat inflation with higher interest rates.
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Other countries, notably China and India, have been raising interest rates to combat inflation.
In the Asian financial crisis, the IMF supported punishingly high interest rates to defend the region's currencies and combat inflation.
Affirming the Fed's political independence and equipping it with better tools would help the central bank combat inflation when the time comes.
When inflation, primarily caused by rising food prices, began to surge upwards in the latter half of the year, the PBOC continued its tightening policies to combat inflation.
To combat inflation, Andy believes that Beijing will keep raising interest rates until food prices cool off, and believes that three more 25 basis-point hikes are likely, including one this year.
Its shares, available as an American Depositary Receipt on the New York Stock Exchange, have drifted lower of late as interest rates have been nudged upward in Brazil to combat inflation.
The current situation seems to be handcuffing the Federal Reserve, which can neither raise rates to combat inflation without hurting growth prospects, nor lower them to aid the economy without hurting the dollar and putting upward pressure on prices.
Central bankers in China have been lobbying the government to let it do more to combat rising inflation in China.
In order to combat rising inflation, the number one problem facing the country today, Beijing has been tightening credit conditions in recent months, raising interest rates on four occasions.
Indian industries and the government have been clamoring for the RBI to unwind most of the 3.75-percentage-point rate increase it carried out between March 2010 and October 2011 to combat stubborn inflation.
Indian industries and the government have been clamoring for the RBI to unwind most of the 3.75-percentage-point rate increases it carried out between March 2010 and October 2011 to combat stubborn inflation.
Seven years after the commitment of combat troops, that inflation was still very much alive and was forcing a successor Administration into radical, desperate economic measures in order to restore some financial balance.
Interest rates have remained at 0.25 percent in the U.S. ever since, but in 2010, China began raising interest rates to combat real estate speculation and inflation, reaching a peak of 6.56 percent by January 2012.
Brazil is not alone in Latin America in relying on a strong currency to combat the region's ancestral vice, inflation.
Their major concerns have been rising inflation and the resulting monetary tightening by their central banks to combat the inflationary pressures.
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