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- noun Plural form of
inflation .
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Examples
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The "Nixon Shock" was followed by a decade of one of the worst inflations of American history and the most stagnant economy since the Great Depression.
The Nixon Shock Heard 'Round the World Lewis E. Lehrman 2011
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Both suffer from price inflations caused by government intervention.
Overspending and Obesity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Historically inflations are very much the norm, delflation much less so.
Ask the Germans, they know! Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigade 2009
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All that prepared me for the Great Depression and for post-war inflations.
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This led to a series of excessive expansions and debt inflations and then severe contractions and debt deflations, beginning on the periphery of the global economy before spreading to Japan and South East Asia.
Ann Pettifor: Happy Anniversary, Mr. Keynes Ann Pettifor 2011
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Once hyper-inflations kicks, everyone will be pay this tax …
House Democrats: half-trillion tax hike for Obamacare. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Partly because as a result of the history of past inflations, a lot of financial assets are connected to the dollar or even indexed to the dollar, much fewer to the euro.
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"Jake" Jacobsen called Moneymaker's inflations of his record
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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This problem was faced in different context in countries stabilizing from high inflations 25 or 20 years ago.
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This led to a series of excessive expansions and debt inflations and then severe contractions and debt deflations, beginning on the periphery of the global economy before spreading to Japan and South East Asia.
Ann Pettifor: Happy Anniversary, Mr. Keynes Ann Pettifor 2011
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