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- verb To
inflate orfill withair again.
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Examples
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I think the idea is stupid in any case — the best solution to a collapsing over-valued and over-leveraged real estate market is probably not trying to reinflate the bubble — but the nature of the tax credit could be an especially foul-smelling turd on top of this pile of excrement.
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Which is why trying to reinflate the financial bubble (with the Summers/Geithner bailout) and the housing bubble (with that goddamned idiotic home-buyer tax credit) is a suicidal course of action.
Matthew Yglesias » A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus 2009
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The June 5 restart of the Keystone pipeline, which carries oil from Alberta to Cushing, may reinflate inventories, which had fallen during a weeklong shutdown.
Crack Between Oil Contracts Grows Sarah Kent 2011
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The June 5 restart of the Keystone pipeline, which carries oil from Alberta to Cushing, may reinflate inventories, which had fallen during a weeklong shutdown.
Crack Between Oil Contracts Grows Sarah Kent 2011
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No, no one says they want to reinflate a temporary bubble based more on speculation and overextended credit than on actual value.
Matthew Yglesias » The Endless Dream of Re-inflating the Bubble 2009
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What they want is to have the money reinflate assets.
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He is a conservative central banker who wants to reinflate the bubble.
Matthew Yglesias » Bernanke: I See What You’re Saying, Will Keep Doing the Same Thing 2010
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They would still think (correctly) that Ben is a conservative central banker who mostly wants to reinflate the Wall Street bubble. soullite says:
Matthew Yglesias » Bernanke: I See What You’re Saying, Will Keep Doing the Same Thing 2010
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I love this “reinflate the bubble” meme, its perfect for tebagging morons. zak822 says:
Matthew Yglesias » A Crisis of Demand, Not Productivity 2010
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Masaaki Shirakawa's advice to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and other BOJ critics—that printing massive amounts of money in an attempt to reinflate an economy undergoing a painful, but necessary, correction after a giant asset bubble has burst won't work—is sound " Japan's Bernanke Hits Out at His Critics in the West ," page one, March 1.
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