But in the vacuum of space the tiny amount of air trapped between them would inflate to create a semi-rigid structure.
While the Fed was not forecasting a coming crisis in 2006, it was clearly aware of many of the elements that had caused the housing bubble to inflate to dangerous proportions.
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After all, if those new bubbles were permitted to inflate to levels sufficient to once again threaten our financial system, Chairman Bernanke would someday be forced to look back on QE2 as the bonehead move of his once-illustrious career.
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This is portrayed as a recipe for economic disaster by those who like to inflate currencies to relieve the burden on borrowers, including spendthrift governments.
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But the alternative, of allowing a bubble to inflate which is bound to burst eventually, would be even more painful.
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It will be more politically tenable to inflate the debt away than to increase interest rates and taxes.
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So Rheingold says many brokers pressured home appraisers to inflate home values in order to get more loans approved and make more in commissions.
His current policy is to inflate another stock market bubble to cure the recession that resulted from the bursting of the housing bubble, which was itself inflated to counter the effects of the bursting tech stock bubble.
These deposits were then used to inflate a domestic property bubble, to fund Greek corporate loans and to buy large quantities of Greek government bonds.
Federal indictments handed down on Mar. 13 accuse former chief executive Carl Putnam, onetime chief financial officer Donald Welchko and four others of engaging in a scheme to inflate sales and profits that led to Anicom's bankruptcy two years ago.
He will need a wheelchair, then a ventilator, and odds are he won't survive his 30s as his muscles fail him, his lungs fail to inflate and his heart eventually is unable to keep beating.
The third choice would be to try to inflate the way out, by allowing inflation to rise so governments could pay down debts faster (with inflation-devalued currencies).
One USCBC survey respondent said his factory raised wages by 20% from 2010, causing labor costs to inflate quickly and make retention more difficult due to an even more aggravated shortage of labor.
Ironically, the very firms that helped to inflate the credit bubble are now among the keenest to profit from its bursting.
Under his leadership, the Federal Reserve has become a one-trick pony, always trying to inflate the supply of money and credit in response to economic downturns.
This appears to have been a willful effort on behalf of certain former Autonomy employees to inflate the underlying financial metrics of the company in order to mislead investors and potential buyers.
Mr. Slater was the JetBlue flight attendant whose version of "Take This Job and Shove It" in 2010 was to inflate the rescue slide on his plane and grab a six pack to go.
Yes, higher interest rates will cause problems for various sectors of the economy, but the ability to inflate other things in response will help raise the demand for money to meet the contraction by the Fed to a level that properly supports the economy.
It's when countries try to use their policy to inflate foreign debt away or spur employment growth, he argues, that they tend to go awry.
Finally, even the ECB helped to inflate the market for this debt and therefore encouraged the likes of Greece and Italy to borrow substantially more than was sensible.
Accelerometers are used in cars to detect when to inflate an airbag, in devices like the Nintendo Wii controller and in Apple laptops to detect if the computer is being dropped.
Finally, the court held that Ultimate Holdings was used to perpetrate a wrong on its creditors, since it was little more than a part of the scheme to inflate the GENI stock, cash it out while at an artificially high value, and let the losses go to the brokerage firms who had extended margin credit to Ultimate Holdings.
Even with ObamaCare set to inflate the Medicaid rolls, reimbursement rates are falling further.
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They say it's two ageing greats fighting to inflate their pension fund rather than their reputation.
To prevent burns, bag-in-belt systems use a cold gas to inflate its protective bladder.
And attempts to control pay in one area tend to inflate it in another.
It will also want to find out why life jackets appeared not to inflate.
My guess is that, politicians being politicians, they will try to inflate them away.
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The baby's lungs would be like small blobs of liver, unable or scarcely able to inflate.
But HP claims that Autonomy took steps to inflate its own value, which Autonomy's former management denies.
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