How to Use disinflation in a Sentence
disinflation
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The disinflation trend might be a blip that owes too much to falling oil prices.
—Denitsa Tsekova, Fortune, 30 July 2023
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Traders in the stock market don’t seem to care what’s behind the recent disinflation.
—Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 21 July 2023
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Also, there’s still a lot of policy uncertainty for the Fed as well as the ECB at this stage amid the slow pace of disinflation, the analysts add.
—WSJ, 19 June 2023
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The labor market and signs of future disinflation The May jobs report mostly showed that the labor market held up.
—Bryan Mena, CNN, 2 June 2023
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What about the disinflation, which started in July 2022?
—John Greenwood, National Review, 15 Jan. 2024
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Still, disinflation does not mean that prices are falling outright.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
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The winds of disinflation have been blowing through American retail for decades.
—The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
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Against that last point, Bloomberg’s John Authers notes that: Many forces for deflation or disinflation also remain in place.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
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After a long downturn and disinflation central banks would have to push to find the limits of the economy’s capacity.
—The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
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In January, though, hopes of disinflation were dashed as new data showed jobs growth and core inflation rising.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2023
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Much of the disinflation comes via prices for goods, which declined 0.4% from September to October, notably for durables such as appliances.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
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Much of the recent disinflation has come as unusual shifts that took place during and after the pandemic have slowly faded.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 July 2023
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That’s partly because most of the factors that have helped inflation to fall so far have been widely anticipated, sort of the low-hanging fruit of disinflation.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 21 June 2023
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For disinflation trends to continue throughout the summer, labor market weakness will need to pick up.
—CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023
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And while the headline figures have been eye-catching, core inflation has surged as well, suggesting a long, slow process of disinflation is in store once prices actually peak.
—Fortune, 2 Apr. 2022
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The central bank decided July 12 to raise borrowing costs against a backdrop of broadening disinflation that seemed to argue against such a move.
—Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
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That can only mean more disinflation and deeper interest-rate cuts.
—Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
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But disinflation—inflation rising at a slower rate—isn’t the same as deflation, which is falling prices.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
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Chair Jerome Powell said that while inflation has come down considerably, the central bank wants to see more signs of disinflation before beginning to ease rates.
—Krystal Hur, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
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Inflation has faded away in much of the world, but the United States stands out for its ability to combine disinflation with vigorous economic growth.
—Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
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The President‘s new nominees to the Board while clear on their commitment to disinflation have yet to make clear their recognition that inflation has its roots in an overheated economy.
—Lawrence H. Summers, Time, 17 Mar. 2022
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Conversely, the model says that the easing of supply chain problems as businesses adapted to economic change accounts for most of the disinflation since 2022.
—Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
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Small businesses are more likely to cite inflation as their principal worry as any time since the beginning of the Reagan disinflation.
—Lawrence H. Summers, Time, 17 Mar. 2022
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The Federal Reserve has helped drive disinflation by raising interest rates, and thus the cost of borrowing, curbing spending.
—Peter Weber, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
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But if disinflation accelerates, there could be a fairly large boost in market sentiment and a surge in traders’ commitment to equities.
—Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
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Along with the subsequent Volcker disinflation, the direct impact of central banks on inflation seemed clear.
—Douglas Carr, National Review, 14 Sep. 2020
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Despite disinflation, there are ways that retailers and producers try to hide price increases.
—Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
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In Chile, given steady disinflation and what policymakers see as below-potential growth, the central bank is all but certain to deliver a third straight jumbo rate cut from the current 9.5%.
—Vince Golle, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
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But his most notable comment about the rising rate of inflation was focused on its opposite trend: That disinflation—slowing price increases—is the real long-term threat to the global economy.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 27 Aug. 2021
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Now, Rieder believes many wealthy, often older Americans who tend to spend more on services may be unwittingly preventing disinflation in this key sector of the economy.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 23 May 2024
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