Sentences with phrase «real fear of inflation»

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The Fear Trade, of course, is driven by low to negative real interest rates — when inflation erodes away at government bond yields — deficit spending, a weaker U.S. dollar and geopolitical uncertainty.

France's Socialist government announced the first real - terms increase in the minimum wage for six years on Tuesday, but limited the rise to 0.6 percentage points above inflation as it sought to balance election promises with fears of damaging employment.

The European Central Bank's ultra-low key interest rate, while appropriate for the ailing PIIGS nations, is too low for faster - growing Germany resulting in negative real interest rates and fears of inflation.

Even during the 1970s, the period when the gold price famously rocketed upward in parallel with increasing fear of «inflation», the gold rally was mostly about declining real interest rates and declining confidence in both monetary and fiscal governance.