Sentences with phrase «slowly than the inflation»

When people's incomes increase more slowly than the inflation rate, their purchasing power declines.

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Even though workers» productivity has grown more slowly in Canada, our inflation - adjusted earnings have grown faster than in the U.S..

«Households are being squeezed from both directions, with inflation rising faster than expected and wages rising more slowly.

On the one hand, it has enabled the monetary aggregates to grow much more slowly than the credit aggregates, helping to keep inflation lower.

Policymakers also forecast inflation to creep only slowly toward the Fed's 2 percent target, even as unemployment dips lower than previously expected.

-- Said the Fed needs to keep slowly raising rates, rather than waiting until inflation hits its 2 percent target, to avoid a «boom - bust» economy whereby it might eventually have to tighten so aggressively as to tip the economy into recession.

With UK wage growth rising faster than inflation, the squeeze on consumers is slowly coming to an end.

But inflation is higher than the statistics would indicate, and is slowly getting driven higher by higher inflation abroad, some of which is getting transmitted here.

Were prices slowly rising rather than falling, companies would be able to raise wages and salaries by roughly the same proportion as the inflation rate without paying significantly more in inflation - adjusted wages.