Sentences with phrase «to curb inflation»

If it acts too aggressively to curb inflation by forcing short - term rates too high, it could choke off home sales.

Moreover, the longer that rates stay low, the more abruptly they may need to rise to curb inflation when the economy improves.

An example would be the Federal Reserve's intervention in the early 1980s: in order to curb inflation of nearly 15 %, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate to 20 %.

The prison population can be safely reduced by curbing inflation in sentencing, calling a halt to any unnecessary use of custodial remand and investing in effective community penalties.»

In fact, some believe the Fed will actually look to raise interest rates to further curb inflation.

The revenue generated through the sales of such food items contributes towards the efforts made by the state and central governments to curb the inflation rate, which has constantly been on a rise even after several revisions made to the tax slabs under GST.

An example would be the Federal Reserve's intervention in the early 1980s: in order to curb inflation of nearly 15 %, the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate to 20 %.

«Although we predict better market opportunities for the sector, there is need to curb this inflation in tariff pricing so investing companies can begin to thrive and achieve real growth,» Dutta said.

[Central banks] are supportive of these new technologies because they'll improve the payment system... but it won't affect the ability of the Fed to require a certain amount of reserves,» remarked Bernanke about a central bank's ability to curb inflation by altering interest rates.

China had raised rates and imposed stricter lending rules on banks in an effort to curb inflation and property speculation.

To curb inflation, the central bank doubled the short - term interest rate to about 7 % with successive raises.

The Fed would face intense pressure to accelerate its rate hikes to tighten credit and curb inflation.

The rationale to raise interest rates would be to curb inflation, which is already under control and well below the central bankâ $ ™ s 2 % target.

The U.S. government began to tighten monetary policy years prior to the recession in 1958, also known as the Eisenhower Recession, in an effort to curb inflation; however, prices continued to climb and the strengthening U.S. dollar led to a growing foreign trade deficit.

The Fed will raise rates to strengthen the dollar, and curb inflation.

By the early 1970s, countries began demanding gold for their dollars to curb inflation.

Hence it becomes impossible to curb inflation, if in the process of curbing inflation government must also curb what is euphemistically called «incentive» — i.e., profits.

To produce that needs action to curb inflation, set realistic tax rates, and mend the banks more rapidly.

Written in 1983, on the heels of the stagflation of the 1970s and a recession caused by the Federal Reserve's attempts to curb inflation, it implied that the current state of the economy could be traced directly to the performance of the education system.

At some point, the Federal Reserve will decide that the economy has recovered enough and will start to raise rates to curb inflation.

At some point, the Bank's long - term rates will go up and this has more to do with an improving U.S. economy and the U.S. Federal Reserves move to increase U.S. Treasure note rates, explains Madani, then with the Bank's desire to curb inflation.

They raise it when they want to curb inflation or perhaps encourage saving.

This happens when short - term yields rise above long - term yields, for example, after a series of hikes in short - term interest rates to curb inflation.

Seeking to curb inflation, the Argentine government put in place currency exchange controls to stem the flow of dollars out of the country.

The Federal Reserve Board is constantly debating another interest rate hike as a means to curb inflation.

Look at what the government did back in the late 70's when they tried to curb inflation.