Sentence examples for instead of inflation from inspiring English sources

And in a discussion about the economy, Rachida Dati, formerly justice minister, coolly said "fellation" (fellatio) instead of "inflation".

Mark Carney, who will take over as governor of the Bank of England next year, has suggested targeting economic output instead of inflation.

If we get deflation instead of inflation, bondholders will want to cling to their 5% coupons, but muni issuers will snatch them away by redeeming the bonds early and refinancing at lower rates (just as homeowners do with their mortgages).

Incidentally, the second sentence in this snippet is not exactly based on any reality: over that three year period the value of the dollar actually "plummeted" by 4% (and in fact one of those years, 2009, was the only year in living memory when we experienced deflation instead of inflation).

Targeting NGDP instead of CPI inflation would enable the Bank to tolerate higher inflation during the current period of depressed economic growth, and would also oblige the Bank to seek an even faster rise in prices if it had fallen short of its target in previous months.

"Instead of importing inflation, you import deflation," says GE Capital's Mr Alexander.

In addition, there would be about 8.5 million fewer jobs, on top of the more than 8 million already lost; and the economy would be experiencing deflation, instead of low inflation.

This has led to suggestions that the Bank is now responding to the current account deficit, in addition to (if not instead of) the inflation rate.

For example, Ball estimates that had the Fed targeted 4% instead of 2% inflation, the unemployment rate would have come down by two more percentage points, 2010-13.

This, in addition to the fact that pressure control ventilation instead of sustained inflation was used, may explain the lesser degree of right ventricular dysfunction caused by the RM in the present study.

Carney, currently governor of the Bank of Canada, has floated the idea that central banks could aim at boosting nominal GDP - economic output plus inflation - instead of tracking an inflation target, the framework followed in the UK since the early-1990s.