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stagflation

/stag-fley-shuhn/US // stægˈfleɪ ʃən //UK // (stæɡˈfleɪʃən) //

滞胀,滞涨,滞销,滞后通胀

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indepression

Examples

  • In the 1970s, stagflation — a combination of rising unemployment and soaring inflation — threatened that belief.

  • Alankar thinks the endgame could be the return of stagflation.

  • But from there we had Watergate, stagflation, oil embargos, eroding American power in the world, growing income inequality, etc.

  • It was the theory that led Fed chairman Paul Volcker to purge stagflation from the system.

  • He turned the tables on the 1929 crash and suggested that stagflation was caused by too much money in the system.

  • There are many reasons to avoid anything to do with the 1970s—stagflation trumps them all.

  • Morici blames the return of stagflation on "Chinese mercantilism" as its government fixes oil prices at home at low levels.