As the enemies he could see and outwit gave way to dangers "less amenable to a frontal political assault: inflation, depression, poverty, cynicism," Aron writes, Yeltsin succumbed to drink, depression and insomnia.
Soap opera lacks social consciousness, it neverbrings in such topics as the menace of fission, the threat of inflation, depression, the infiltration of Communism, or the racial problem Study of the social stratification of soap operas: the ban against liquor, smoking amorous indulgence, the sexual aspect, and about the special ills soap opera characters are subjected to.
Imagine inflation, depression, devaluation of stocks or bonds or the dollar, shortages of food or fuel or other resources.
John Quiggin has a fun post debunking the notion, all too common among economists, that macroeconomics — the study of inflation, depressions, and all that — is somehow flaky and unworthy of the field's grandeur, that only microeconomics, derived rigorously from rational behavior, is real science.
Inflation and depression?
They've been clobbered by Vietnam, Watergate, the inflation, the depression.
The E.U.'s economic strictures, which now act as a barrier to Keynesian deficit spending, were put there by the Germans, for whom memories of inflation, not depression, are the great nightmare.
This is in contrast to the instability of the years 1914-48, whincludeduded two world wars, two periods of high to rampant inflation, a Depression that left over a third of the workforce out of a job, and the virtual demolition of every German city by bombing by the end of the Second World War.
The Federal Reserve, more worried about inflation than depression, is likely to raise rather than to cut rates.
And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how inflation and depression originate".
The guiding principle has been the need to avoid a second Great Depression, while eurozone policy makers have, at least until recently, focused on keeping inflation low.
