Reagan entered office facing double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, and soon double digit unemployment.
Reagan turned around the double digit unemployment, double digit inflation, and double digit interest rates that Keynesian economics produced in the 1970s, replacing it with the greatest economic boom in world history from 1982 to 2007.
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Ronald Reagan faced a worse economy than Obama did, because there was double-digit unemployment, double-digit inflation, double-digit mortgage rates and chronic shortages that disrupted businesses and consumers alike.
Trade unions are demanding a 65% wage increase, about double the inflation rate, it reports.
For starters, Abe wants the central bank to double its inflation goal from the current 1.0%.
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That was a time of double digit inflation and several recessions, which increased the appeal of gold.
The policies have seen Japan's central bank, the Bank of Japan, double its inflation target to 2% in attempt to spur domestic consumption.
Of course, there were other critical policies contributing to that Reagan boom, mostly notably the strong dollar monetary policy that tamed double digit inflation for a generation.
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Under his presidency, the country reduced double digit inflation and sky high interest rates, and become one of the shiny stars in the emerging market world both economically and politically.
Furthermore, Wilson, the only president with a doctorate, tried to use the newly created Federal Reserve system and an elastic money supply to keep inflation in check, but the U.S. still saw double-digit inflation from 1917 to 1920.
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Among Venezuela's problems are crumbling infrastructure, persistent shortages of food and medicine, and double-digit inflation.
There is no Paul Volcker in charge of stopping deflation as he slaughtered double-digit inflation with murderously high interest rates.
Of course, it does not take double-digit inflation to prod businesses into cutting costs and improving efficiency and quality.
Venezuelans are afflicted by chronic power outages, crumbling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages, and rampant crime.
In the 1970s that kind of depreciation was accompanied by double-digit inflation.
Turkey, after all, has muddled along with double-digit inflation, big budget deficits and see-sawing markets for the better part of the past 20 years.
In fact what you would need was something close to double-digit inflation for a couple of years: an inflation "shock" that really gets you started.
While the situation was different back then, with double-digit inflation and geopolitical events fueling massive volatility (the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan were among the topics de jour).
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Remember, however, that the 1970s saw double-digit inflation.
Two decades ago, Democratic President Jimmy Carter named Paul Volcker as Fed chairman, ushering in an era of stern interest-rate policies that extinguished double-digit inflation at what was initially a high cost for economic growth.
The report coincided with a withdrawal of deposits and investments from the UAE by speculative investors who had previously been betting that local currencies would shoot up as Gulf states let go of their dollar pegs to deal with double-digit inflation.
Inflation surged to double digits and for the first time in recent history, India's inflation rate climbed above the emerging-market average.
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While her government reduced annual inflation from the double-digit figures of the 1970s, it was only in the 1990s that inflation came under control.
As a result, health costs have grown at double the rate of inflation elsewhere in the economy.
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The Teamsters and United Auto Workers stood too powerful, creating wage inflation approaching double-digit percentage annual leaps.
The cost of our basket of luxury goods climbed 6% over the past year, more than double the rate of inflation.
From 2004 through 2008, the states jacked up spending by nearly 35 percent, or about double the rate of inflation plus population growth.
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They were about raising interest rates to double figures to confront inflation, and raising taxes, in the teeth of high and rising unemployment, in 1981.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) demanded an excessive 8.6% pay rise, more than double the rate of inflation, at a time when the country's recovery from last year's recession is fragile.
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