An overheated stockmarket could spill over into an overheated economy and so push up inflation.
Most economists think unemployment, at 6.4%, is so low that rising wages are pushing up inflation.
The first is that it will jack up inflation and so do more harm than good.
It should also help to reduce America's massive trade deficit, and perhaps even push up inflation.
Mauritius imports most of its food and energy, so rising world prices are pushing up inflation.
The effect has been to slow already meagre growth further and push up inflation.
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.
Car prices also pressured up inflation, already rising 2.10% this year, as the tax cuts of last year are reversed.
If money is not circulating, but is stashed in reserves or under mattresses, it cannot boost spending or push up inflation.
The recession would deepen by 22%, says the bank, pushing up inflation and sending unemployment levels even higher than their current 21.9%.
The spending binge has caused the economy to overheat, pushing up inflation.
"This could ultimately undermine the dollar, push up inflation even more and raise the cost of servicing debt for the US authorities, " our business editor explained.
By flooding the foreign-exchange market with their own money, central banks risk driving up inflation which would erode the gain in competitiveness from a cheap currency.
Once one adds up inflation premiums and liquidity premiums and tax hike premiums, one finds that the price of safety is to invest at a loss.
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.
ECONOMIST: How did Australia buck the worldwide economic downturn?
Galloping petrol and grocery costs have driven up inflation, so they look to core inflation as a proxy of where things end up once commodity prices stop rising.
ECONOMIST: Ignore the hawkish rhetoric. The Fed isn��t about to tighten
Many economists are starting to worry that the weak dollar will push up inflation, leaving the central bank no room to cut interest rates if the economy slows abruptly.
On the other hand, if a central bank responds by cutting official interest rates too drastically, it may push up inflation, or cause expectations of future inflation to rise.
Increased competition and technological advances may have helped America's economy to grow faster without pushing up inflation, but the drop in inflation has also owed a lot to falling oil prices.
They know that it will have to grow more slowly if the economy is to absorb the big boost in public expenditure that is on its way without stoking up inflation.
Moreover, the rise in VAT will push up inflation.
ECONOMIST: News about recovery and inflation may sway the voters
That has given a big boost to domestic spending but raised concerns that the flood of liquidity will push up inflation, fuel bubbles in shares and housing, and store up bad loans.
ECONOMIST: Is the economic stimulus too much of a good thing?
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.
However, in the current weak economic climate, firms with lots of spare capacity find it hard to pass on costs, so rising labour costs are more likely to squeeze profits than to push up inflation.
The recent increase in oil and gasoline prices will push up inflation temporarily, but the Committee anticipates that subsequently inflation will run at or below the rate that it judges most consistent with its dual mandate.
While other central bankers are tamping down expansionary rhetoric, Fed Chairman Bernanke is on record saying that he will do everything in his power to push up inflation (which he considers too low) and dilute the dollar.
It is part of a drive to force banks to take a tougher view of credit worthiness, and to slow industrial expansion in sectors such as steel and cement which are driving up inflation and threatening growth.
Looking at input costs, which generally gives insight into pent-up inflation, one sees that PPI fell 0.3% in July on the back of a marked fall in gas prices (down 3.1% in July and 40% on a three-month annualized basis).
FORBES: Drought Devastates Farmers, But Coke And Corn Flakes Won't Spike
应用推荐