demand-pull inflation
Americannoun
noun
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Indeed there are worrisome signs that the economy is heading into an old-fashioned demand-pull inflation, in which too many dollars chase too few goods.
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The result: a burst of demand-pull inflation and a spate of shortages that forced President Nixon to clamp on another wage-price freeze and institute Phase IV.
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She is also known to cause rapid GDP growth and demand-pull inflation.
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Burns' reasoning is that the "demand-pull inflation" of earlier years has turned into more persistent "cost-push inflation."
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In the 1960s, it was thought that the economy could grow 4% each year without setting off a burst of demand-pull inflation.
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