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- adjective economics Tending to
stabilize anunbalanced economy .
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Examples
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These segments have historically been contracyclical, which have helped us to diversify our earnings in the past.
unknown title 2011
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It's reasonable to debate the merits of contracyclical monetary policy.
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France had rejoined the gold standard in 1926, and its central bank had resisted pressures to devalue the Franc until 1936, and it experienced large gold inflows (and according to Bernanke and Mihov kept to the "rules of the game" and did not sterilise gold inflows, and maintained a monetary policy that was generally contracyclical).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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France had rejoined the gold standard in 1926, and its central bank had resisted pressures to devalue the Franc until 1936, and it experienced large gold inflows (and according to Bernanke and Mihov kept to the "rules of the game" and did not sterilise gold inflows, and maintained a monetary policy that was generally contracyclical).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Lacking the fiscal capacity to engage in contracyclical policy, the Commonwealth Caribbean colonies could only be passive in the face of this tremendous global economic shock.
Stabroek News 2009
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France had rejoined the gold standard in 1926, and its central bank had resisted pressures to devalue the Franc until 1936, and it experienced large gold inflows (and according to Bernanke and Mihov kept to the "rules of the game" and did not sterilise gold inflows, and maintained a monetary policy that was generally contracyclical).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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France had rejoined the gold standard in 1926, and its central bank had resisted pressures to devalue the Franc until 1936, and it experienced large gold inflows (and according to Bernanke and Mihov kept to the "rules of the game" and did not sterilise gold inflows, and maintained a monetary policy that was generally contracyclical).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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France had rejoined the gold standard in 1926, and its central bank had resisted pressures to devalue the Franc until 1936, and it experienced large gold inflows (and according to Bernanke and Mihov kept to the "rules of the game" and did not sterilise gold inflows, and maintained a monetary policy that was generally contracyclical).
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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When private individuals cut back nowadays, Governments not only maintain their expenditure, but actually increase it as a part of a contracyclical policy.
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At some point in the future, this may lead to Governments having to cut back to avoid inflation, but the initial consequence is that Government spending acts as a contracyclical, anti-deflationary, force.
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