Sentences with phrase «feed runaway inflation»

And as the debt load grows, efforts by the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy with lower rates would be more likely to feed runaway inflation.

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The Fed struggled with runaway U.S. inflation in the 1970s and early 1980s.

As the network notes, El - Erian has previously called the policy a «reverse Volcker moment,» in reference to former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, who raised rates and deliberately put the nation into recession in the early 1980s to control runaway inflation.

The Fed has to raise rates before we're confronted with runaway inflation, says one side.

This much is not: When will the Fed start tightening its interest - rate policy to thwart any runaway inflation?

A little inflation is OK, but the Fed wants to prevent runaway inflation which is much harder to control.