About 75% of China's inflation is the result of higher food prices, as in 2008 when costly food pushed inflation past 8%.
Rising fuel prices pushed inflation up in February, with the consumer price index (CPI) gaining 0.7%, its largest monthly gain in nearly four years.
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That has pushed inflation to 35%.
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In any case, devaluation would have pushed up inflation and increased the burden of euro-denominated loans and mortgages.
So far, Uruguay has escaped the pre-election jitters that pushed up inflation and interest rates in Brazil last year.
Unemployment has fallen to its lowest since 1980, which in past cycles would have pushed wage inflation up sharply.
It has pushed up inflation by much less than expected, even though the Reserve Bank of Australia has cut interest rates as the currency has fallen.
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The MPC has "looked through" the supply shocks that have hit the economy and pushed up inflation over the past few years - just as it might have done under a nominal GDP regime.
Meanwhile, gains in energy food and energy prices pushed wholesale price inflation.
The rising cost of petrol pushed the headline inflation rate in the UK up to 3.3% in June - its highest level for nearly two years.
That drop has made imports more expensive and pushed the rate of inflation up above 10%.
Rising inflation has pushed wages higher, a new report from research group Incomes Data Services suggests.
Rising energy prices pushed consumer-price inflation in the year to January up to 2.6%, its highest level since September 2001.
This monetary inflation quickly pushed up oil prices.
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As the cost consumers pay for goods remains subdued but input costs rise, pushed by commodity-cost inflation, input-price inflation has the potential to hit margins and thus profitability.
Last month, Mr Weidmann raised the spectre of a global currency war, suggesting the erosion of central bank independence around the world threatened to unleash a race to the bottom as politicians pushed central banks to replace inflation targets with measures that could serve to weaken currencies.
Safe interest rates are negative, once you adjust for inflation, and that has pushed investors out into riskier asset classes.
The U.S. Federal Reserve, which has a mandate to monitor inflation, said this week that it would look more closely for signs of inflation, as oil costs pushed prices up dramatically in the first part of this year.
In February, the main consumer price inflation index hit 2.8%, pushed by higher tuition fees and domestic energy bills.
Simply put, a lot of the peak inflation targets forecast by US fund managers have been pushed forward since April.
Gold pushed to higher levels throughout much of the 2000s as a hedge against inflation and an ever weakening dollar.
But then came Ronald Reagan, who killed the terrible inflation of the 1970s, sharply reduced income tax rates and pushed deregulation.
Indeed, inflation would have fallen in July but for the wet summer which pushed up seasonal food prices rather than cutting them.
He pushed for a human approach to economics, emphasizing jobs and social indicators as much as inflation targets.
It didn't, probably because the pound's fall against the euro had pushed up the price of goods imported into the UK, raising the spectre of higher inflation.
In U.S. economic news, higher oil prices pushed up February import prices for the first time in three months, hinting at new inflation pressures, though the gain came in below expectations.
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