Trade unions are demanding a 65% wage increase, about double the inflation rate, it reports.
Fairness demands that the Fed avoid big swings in the inflation rate in either direction.
The inflation rate, however, has fallen in the past year, averaging around 11 percent in 2012.
They've had inflation increase money from ourselves that is far more than the inflation rate.
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The inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, was 2.7% in January.
Financial repression occurs when Central Bank policy drives interest rates well below the inflation rate.
While core inflation is running higher lately, forward-looking indicators suggest a slowdown in the inflation rate.
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Even our figure of 3.8% represents a fall in real terms, since the inflation rate is 4.2%.
The way the system works is you automatically get a cost-of-living adjustment based on the inflation rate.
First, the inflation rate has been at or above 3 percent for most of the last half-century.
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These track the inflation rate and pay a rate of interest at the end of the year.
When asked, neither the central bank's governor nor his head of research knew what the inflation rate was.
For in December they said the inflation rate was 4.1% for consumer goods.
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For the past five years, the inflation rate has been above that level.
The second criterion for asset class inclusion is that the expected return must be higher than the inflation rate.
In Ms Bevacqua's day, INDEC artificially boosted the inflation rate, perhaps to benefit holders of inflation-linked bonds, she claims.
Every dollar invested in these securities yields far less than the inflation rate.
The federal government can tell American households that the inflation rate is under 2%, but the poor consumer knows better.
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Bond yields are around 4% above the inflation rate, well above the 2.5% premium that has prevailed in recent decades.
They will also object to the elimination of several statutory indices that guarantee them pension increases above the inflation rate.
Monday's consumer price inflation data show the inflation rate in urban areas slowed to 9.73% in April from 10.38% in March.
Sector metal workers were asking for a 2% salary increase over the inflation rate, making for a nominal increase of 9.5%.
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Also, the inflation rate is hovering at around 33% while bank-lending rates are at about 40% in the southern African country.
Argentina, interestingly, has been threatening to prosecute and jail economists who do their own private estimations of the inflation rate recently.
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Another consideration of the economy going forward is the impact of soon to be announced tax cuts on the inflation rate.
HSBC, a bank, suggests that a 20% fall in the euro lifts the inflation rate by only 0.2% after a year.
So if the inflation rate is 3% in January, for example, prices are 3% higher than they were 12 months earlier.
Even those would not be allowed, by law, to exceed the inflation rate unless local voters said otherwise in a referendum.
What matters, in large part, is the difference between the interest rate the borrower is paying and the inflation rate in general.
If I invest at 5%, but the inflation rate is 6%, then I am really losing 1% per year in purchasing power.
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