Sentences with phrase «slowly than the inflation rate»

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

Not exact matches

-- 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.

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.