Sentence examples for counteract inflation from inspiring English sources

In the past, the Fed has usually brought on recessions by a deliberate campaign to raise interest rates to counteract inflation from too much demand.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to counteract inflation, making it harder and more expensive to raise funds to finance investment.

Beginning in 2006 and continuing through late 2007, China raised interest rates to counteract inflation.

Investment credits and investment allowances were adopted by the United States in 1962 in order to protect domestic business from foreign competition, but they were eliminated in the Tax Reform Act of 1969 in an attempt to counteract rising inflation.

That could change as banks begin to lend money they hold in reserves, but the Fed hopes tighter monetary policy and efforts to drain some reserves will counteract any inflation.

On 29 January 2009, in an effort to counteract runaway inflation, acting Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced that Zimbabweans will be permitted to use other, more stable currencies to do business, alongside the Zimbabwe dollar.

Many of the health workers argued that the salary increase in recent years has been counteracted by inflation.

Shorter length of stay would result in lower first year healthcare cost estimates in later studies, however these reductions may be counteracted by inflation adjustment over time.

The central bank said this month it may need to increase the cost of borrowing earlier and to a greater extent than previously expected to counteract stubbornly high inflation.

The often encountered underestimation of uncertainty can be counteracted with covariance inflation [40].

… A group of capitalists, characterized the most by its continued, bloody opposition to workers' vindications, has plotted an unthinkable maneuver to neutralize the steps that had been adopted to stop the rise in the cost of living … and counteract the effects of inflation.