Sentence examples for inflation war from inspiring English sources

The Anglo-American public has been socialized into the militarist conceptualization of many other abstract social and political issues through frequent exposure to the WAR metaphor as an expression of unwavering resolve (e.g., war against crime, war against inflation, war on cancer, war on poverty, war on drugs, war on global warming, war on human trafficking, to name just a few).

Since 1979 its economy has staggered under inflation, war and now a unilateral US trade embargo.

Mr. Rogoff conceded that "any inflation above 2 percent may seem anathema to those who still remember the anti-inflation wars of the 1970s and 1980s".

At times those rates rose in common with prices under the pull of monetary demand (in times of inflation, during war, or in the rising phase of the trade cycle), but when the demand fell off they were resistant to cuts; and though they were cut somewhat, they commonly remained at a higher level than when the preceding rise began.

The irony that Germany created a currency out of the ashes of inflation and war, with a central bank that would become the role model for inflation-fighting resolve, could now be one step away from printing money is rather dramatic.

(Needless to say, the double effect on money income is not always desirable. The fact that this method of financing government spending has almost always been heavily resorted to in wartime accounts for the historical association of large inflations with wars).

A history of wars and inflation, and the post-war assumption that governments will provide safely for retirement, all still push them the other way.

And even then, the country was recovering from the double-digit inflation of World War I.