How to Use inflationary spiral in a Sentence

inflationary spiral

noun

• Even before the Russian attack on Ukraine, oil and gasoline prices were in an inflationary spiral.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• The new money caused an inflationary spiral that eroded the value of any savings people had.
  — Declan Walsh, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• The state consumer counsel said ratepayers are already struggling to keep up with a steep inflationary spiral.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2022
• One of the big ones is the possibility of setting off a further inflationary spiral.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
• Like most everyone else, Lemoine is losing purchasing power in the worst inflationary spiral to grip the U.S. since the early 1980s and is figuring out how to get by.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 15 July 2022
• The risk of an inflationary spiral arises when policy makers first dismiss the problem and then cast blame elsewhere.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• The inflationary spiral, caused by the Covid pandemic and exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, has spilled over globally.
  — Liz Capo McCormick and bloomberg, Fortune, 3 July 2022
• The great inflationary spiral may be peaking after causing everything from rutabagas to Prime beef to soar.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• The freeze persuaded organized labor to temper wage demands and broke what had been an inflationary spiral of price and wage hikes that sapped consumer buying power.
  — William N. Walker, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• Many commodities from copper to lumber have dropped from their peak pandemic prices, easing the most acute worries about an inflationary spiral.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 June 2021
• But critics such as former treasury secretary Larry Summers warn of an inflationary spiral resembling the decade-long rise that began in the late 1960s.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• Theories that held that unions were setting off an inflationary spiral by pushing for raises were one example of this kind of theory.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Sep. 2020
• The Singapore dollar may have to stay strong to ensure that an artificially tight labor market doesn’t trigger an inflationary spiral, though there’s no sign of one yet.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2019
• But even assuming a future inflationary spiral, US utilities are far more prepared as businesses than in the 1970s.
  — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Conversely, the working class depends on wages and salaries staying above inflation, which is difficult to obtain in practice once an inflationary spiral takes hold.
  — Fortune, 16 Nov. 2021
• Mester doesn’t necessarily believe higher wages are leading to higher prices in some sort of inflationary spiral, as some analysts have feared.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• In addition to falling vacancy, some in the real estate industry point to an inflationary spiral as a reason rents are heading higher.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• The union victory in the famous GE strike during the Nixon administration won salary increases for workers but contributed to an inflationary spiral.
  — Thomas S. Hibbs, National Review, 31 Aug. 2017
• Rising wages could distribute more of the recovery’s gains to lower-income Americans and marginalized populations, but investors fret that a wage-price inflationary spiral could be hard for the Fed to control once set in motion.
  — NBC News, 15 June 2021
• So an ongoing shortage of electronic components has been a central factor in the product shortage and inflationary spiral that has beset the U.S. economy in the pandemic’s wake.
  — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2021
• Istanbul’s stock market was twice forced to halt trading and the Turkish lira continued to fall Friday as concerns deepened that recent interest-rate cuts could cause an inflationary spiral.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• Unfortunately for Bernanke, however, his book arrives just as this new framework is being put to the test, with an inflationary spiral taking hold, an economic slowdown on the horizon, and tech and crypto bubbles starting to burst.
  — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• She was said to believe that doing so would heighten Argentina’s inflationary spiral, and that logic has also inflected Fernández’s refusal to issue greater bills.
  — Federico Perelmuter, The New Republic, 21 June 2022
• While prices for many metals remain above prepandemic levels, their retreat from records eases some immediate concerns about supply shocks adding to an inflationary spiral.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• Specifically, the jobless rate can fall lower and government budget deficits can run higher than was once widely believed without setting off an inflationary spiral.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• But others view the inflationary spiral as more complicated and less political.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
• By Jason Overdorf Even as India's government pours $5 billion into a scheme to ease rural unemployment, its plan may be contributing to an inflationary spiral that's making the cost of living more burdensome for the country's poor.
  — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• The Fed can reduce inflation by raising interest rates, but interest rates need not exceed inflation to prevent an inflationary spiral.
  — John H. Cochrane, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• World Bank research studying the causes of inflation in Ethiopia suggests in an economy facing foreign exchange constraints, a devaluation can miss its target and set off an inflationary spiral.
  — Hawi Dadhi, Quartz, 5 July 2022
• The pandemic accelerated the move to automation; as explained in earlier blogs, an inflationary spiral is caused by something putting constant upward pressure on prices.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024