"serious inflation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a significant and sustained rise in the general price level of goods and services in an economy. Example: The government's failure to control spending has led to serious inflation, causing prices of basic necessities to skyrocket and putting a strain on the average citizen's budget.
During the last 2 yrs., we have experienced serious inflation, followed by recession.
"The danger is that the pound falls too far and becomes a serious inflation concern.
The stock market rose last week on optimism that the economy would grow without setting off serious inflation.
My point is not that we are on the edge today of serious inflation, which is unlikely if the Fed remains vigilant.
"This policy is arrant idiocy and is likely to ultimately lead to serious inflation, a risk that governments continue to ignore at their peril," he writes.
So far, complaints about rising prices have amounted to little more than grumbles, but serious inflation has set off social unrest in China in the past.
It's more difficult to find serious inflation-fighting companies among publicly traded stocks.
In the 1970s, the sociologist Peter Rossi reported that in California, where he did an influential study of nine disaster-prone communities, "earthquakes are seen to be substantially less serious" than inflation, welfare, crime and even pornography.
It is to be remembered we have not had a serious commodity inflation, or a money panic, but merely a bad break in stocks caused by the turning of the mob psychology from the bull to the bear side, which has unquestionably driven a number of stocks far below their true value.
Still, there's no need to suppose that serious membership inflation is that rampant.
By contrast, there is almost no risk that delaying a rate hike will lead to serious problems with inflation, since the inflation rate has long been well below the Fed's 2.0percenttargetetarget
