Baby-boomers getting their first foot on the housing ladder enjoyed both mortgage-tax relief and the debt-gobbling effects of inflation.
Accounting for the effects of inflation, the stock index hasn't been in record territory for more than 13 years.
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The low levels of projected inflation reflect the effects of continued high levels of slack in the economy.
Sweeney noted that stocks historically have generated larger returns than bonds, making them a better option to offset the effects of long-term inflation.
It is important to consider inflation because even mild rates of inflation have profound effects over long periods of time.
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As the beneficial effects of rising share prices disappear, inflation could pick up at the very time when tumbling stockmarkets were choking spending.
While Bernanke was accurate to say inflation and the effects of supply chain disruption in Japan would prove to be transitory, he still holds on to his prediction that economic activity will pick up in coming quarters.
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Some other strains of inflation have more serious economic effects.
This suggests that the optimal rate of inflation depends on the balance between the effects of the grease and the sand.
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However, statements on the development of the euro exchange rate and the effects on growth and inflation cannot be excluded.
Indeed, speculative excesses in asset prices and credit flows might occur more frequently in future, thanks to the combined effects of financial liberalisation and a monetary-policy framework that concentrates on inflation but places no constraint on credit growth.
Because energy powers the economic engine much as it does the motor of your car, increases in its cost can have stark effects on inflation and growth.
Moreover, the MPC still has room for manoeuvre to counter the contractionary effects of additional budgetary curbs, because its central forecast shows consumer-price inflation below the 2% target in two years' time, the horizon it focuses on when setting monetary policy.
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We're all familiar with inflation and its adverse effects, but we're utterly ignorant of its sister disease, deflation.
Growth, inflation, the balance of payments and foreign exchange reserves are all expected to show the effects of lost businesses and reconstruction costs.
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