Sentences with phrase «risk accelerating inflation»

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He suggested this might add to inflation risks; accelerate the need for interest - rate hikes; strain mortgages; and ultimately widen the import - export trade deficit, which is the source of trade tensions.

And for all the muddle, the one thing that seems clear is that the risks to the economy and particularly the labor market — which is generating solid job growth and even some wage gains (for which we should all give Chair Yellen and the Fed serious credit)-- remain «asymmetric:» there's a greater risk of needlessly slowing non-inflationary growth than there is of inflation accelerating.

Risks to the inflation outlook would arise if these increases were to accelerate as the economy strengthens, or if they spread more widely to other bargaining streams, pushing aggregate wages growth to levels inconsistent with maintaining low inflation.