The phrase "attack inflation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about economic policies or strategies aimed at reducing inflation rates.
Example: "The government has proposed several measures to attack inflation and stabilize the economy."
Alternatives: "combat inflation" or "curb inflation".
Even in France, he says, people are more willing for their national central banks to be independent of political interference and free to attack inflation.
Andrew Sentance, the Bank of England's most vociferous hawk, today failed in his final effort to persuade his fellow policymakers to attack inflation with an interest rate rise.
The bank's president, Jean-Claude Trichet, argued that the bank needed to attack inflation even though many economists contend that raising borrowing costs could damage weaker economies like that of Portugal, which on Wednesday became the third country in the euro zone to request a bailout.
The choice facing the Nixon Administration was either to attack inflation with stringent fiscal and monetary controls forgetting about direct or indirect controls on wages, prices, or particular sectors of the economy or to combine vigorous selective controls with a more moderately restrictive over‐all fiscal and monetary policy.
When Turkey successfully attacked inflation this year, that income diminished and several banks failed.
In 1971, the President fully uncoupled the dollar from the gold standard and attacked inflation with wage and price controls.
The degree to which the Fed becomes more aggressive in attacking inflation this week and for the rest of the year depends on a host of factors.
Robert Mugabe's thugocracy has attacked inflation by browbeating merchants into slashing prices, jailing anyone caught converting the Zimbabwean dollar into a foreign currency, forcing businesses to deposit cash into banks daily and even restricting the purchase of livestock, since many citizens consider cattle a safer bet than a savings account.
She called for an all-out attack on inflation, pledged to denationalize basic industry and promised to curb union power.
Robert B. Stone, the American who heads the General Motors Corporation's subsidiary here, will not soon forget March 16, when Brazil's new Government announced its radical attack on inflation.
Prime Minister Robert D. Muldoon of New Zealand today announced a 12-month wage and price freeze effective at midnight tonight in what he described as a major attack on inflation.
