Sentence examples for suppress inflation from inspiring English sources

Even the German central bank, famous for its commitment to suppress inflation, sought to mitigate economic downturns, she said.

A central bank can raise interest rates as high as it wants to suppress inflation, but it cannot cut nominal rates below zero.

The Fed has worked for decades to suppress inflation, but economists, including Janet Yellen, President Obama's nominee to lead the Fed starting next year, have long argued that a little inflation is particularly valuable when the economy is weak.

The Fed, which administered controls through its Soviet-sounding "Division of Selective Credit Regulation", used them to suppress inflation while interest rates were subordinated to the Treasury's funding needs.

They accused the government of trying to flood the internal market with wheat to suppress inflation, unofficially estimated to have risen by 28% in 2013, at the expense of agricultural producers.

It was the first time in eight months that the central bank raised rates and it illustrated the quandary confronting South Korean economic policy makers: higher rates could help suppress inflation but could also cause growth to slow and hurt the ability of the nation's highly indebted conglomerates like Daewoo and Hyundai to pay off billions in loans.

Suppressed inflation, thanks to state subsidies of fuel, is running at two or three percentage points.

The Fed historically has erred on the side of suppressing inflation, even at the expense of tolerating higher unemployment.

The Fed, in a break from its historic focus on suppressing inflation, has tried since the financial crisis to keep prices rising about 2 percent a year.

Editorials appealing for people to save are very helpful, but structuring taxes, so people will have an incentive to save, and suppressing inflation, so that what they do save is worth saving, are also important.

He never had to deal with anything like the spiralling inflation that William McChesney Martin and Paul Volcker, his forebears, forcefully brought under control (in this regard, we should remember that suppressing inflation is the Federal Reserve's raison d'être).