And when you have 0% inflation that means any rise in wages will see an increase in "real labour costs" but that doesn't meant they are spiralling out of control.
The 2008 global financial crisis hit the country hard, sending unemployment spiralling.
This is when he began to develop his distinctive style – the gentle, spiralling melancholy which is like listening to someone floating in space.
The agave crisis kicked in a few months ago, sending prices spiralling.
The artist proposed the construction of a 61m (200ft) spiralling Neolithic mound in east Yorkshire to represent the UK's ancient history.
At a time of vertiginously spiralling economic and environmental stress globally, these are insights many of us in the developed north would be well advised to attend to – and by no means merely the poorest among us.
The shock upset was ascribed to voter anger over perceived cronyism and corruption, discontent among Chinese and Indian minorities, and spiralling food and fuel prices.
Players would take turns to gingerly place pieces of information about the series onto the shoulders of a plastic viewer, but, at any moment, a single obscure fact about an episode he hasn't seen might send him spiralling into a protracted full-body fit until everyone goes home.
President George Bush's team, which has been consistently sympathetic to Mr Sharon, is believed to have signalled to him unequivocally in recent days that the violence was spiralling out of control, and threatened to prejudice American interests.Mr Sharon is putting the best face on his apparent climbdowns.
The cost of borrowing began to creep up again, a big bank failed, foreign capital took flight and Turkey found itself in a vicious circle of wobbling banks and spiralling interest rates.
But the unelected government's problems are multiplying: poverty has risen sharply in the past few years because of spiralling food prices, a Dhaka-based think-tank said this week.
