Sentences with phrase «serious inflation problem»

But if the European Central Bank significantly loosens the currency to bail out these countries, it will create serious inflation problems in countries like Germany and others with more skilled labor forces and reasonable deficits.

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In a good economy, gradual inflation is considered a good thing, but in tougher economic times, too much inflation is a serious problem.

Last point: as I stress in the WaPo piece, the inflation target is too low — at 2 %, it invokes possible zero - lower - bound problems the next time we hit a downturn, and especially with a... um... difficult Congress (meaning adequate countercyclical fiscal policy may well not be forthcoming), that's a really serious problem.

Had economists been told such monetary policies lay ahead, moreover, they would have confidently predicted that inflation would become a serious problem — and would have been shocked to find out that across the United States, Europe, and Japan, it has generally remained well below two percent.

With inflation and inflation expectations below target and declining, there would be little case for preemption even if inflation above target was a serious problem.