If the Federal Reserve were to stop creating new money, the result would be not a stable price level but significant deflation.
Ideally, politicians would choose the more efficient carbon tax, which implies a relatively stable price that producers can build into their investment plans.
We are hopeful that our pricing actions, combined with our capacity decisions, will help us get back to more stable price declines in the coming quarters.
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Indeed, a key argument in favor of a gold standard is that market forces will gradually expand the money supply in a way that produces a stable price level.
Despite the recent price fall, Mr Brown said there was still a threat of them rising sharply again once the economy recovered and it was in everyone's interest to have a more stable price.
During my tenure on the FOMC February 1991 to November 2004 the mandate question went from concern over apparently incompatible goals to a reconcilement based on the idea that in the long run the best environment for growth is a stable price level.
Denninger asserts that monetary sovereign issuers possess not only the privilege, but the obligation, of seigniorage, which Denninger refers to as bi-directional since sovereigns have the responsibility of maintaining a stable price level during times of both economic expansion and economic contraction.
Cracker Barrel has maintained relatively stable stock price growth over the last two years.
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UBS, its big Swiss bank rival, which has no insurance group attached, files under both American and international standards and has recently enjoyed a much more stable share price (see chart).
The key policy breakthrough to unlock these dead resources is for the Fed to commit to maintaining the value of the dollar, with a stable gold price as a key metric and report card.
In the Reagan years, there were tax cuts, real nice ones, on the income tax, down at the top from 70% to 28%, in the context of strong-dollar policy and a low, stable gold price.
If the U.S. economy continues to slow into the first quarter of 2013, and if Europe remains a basket case next year, then oil demand will be stable and price rises will largely depend on Asian demand and the usual Middle Eastern drama pitting Tel Aviv against Tehran.
Since it is (almost) universally accepted that full employment is best achieved in a stable economy, price stability is, in practice, the Federal Reserve's prime concern.
Add in record low interest rates, high rents and a stabilizing job market and you have a recipe for stable housing growth and price expansion.
The Beige Book showed a stable employment situation and easing price pressures on producers, despite relatively elevated input costs.
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It was only in the 1980s, when the US committed to a stable (and low) price of gold, and to killing off stagflation, that no white knight materialized to keep the Soviet Union going.
If fiscal policy cannot be rehabilitated, adopting a target zone comes down to saying that stable currencies are worth the price of somewhat compromising the authorities' ability to use monetary policy in controlling inflation.
The NAND market picked up on higher OEM-related demand, improving quarter-on-quarter sales, particularly in solution products such as Solid State Drives (SSDs) for notebook PCs and Embedded Multimedia Cards (eMMC), but a steepening price decline hampered stable growth.
Lockheed Martin's investors doubt this will happen to the F-35: the share price has been remarkably stable over the past two years.
The safe bet is to raise price and hope volume remains stable.
The plan includes as well reforming the Fed to mandate that it follow a price rule to maintain a stable dollar without inflation.
The benefits of price stability, low and stable interest rates, an increase in high paying jobs and the spread of prosperity would redound to the benefit of all.
Martins said he expects stable prices throughout the third quarter with a potential price bounce in the fourth.
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In short, the valuable prize of a more prosperous and stable Eastern Europe could be bought at a tiny price.
Price declines, and slower, but stable, GDP growth.
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Sufficient refinery capacity has as much influence on gasoline prices as fluctuations in the price of oil so if Americans want stable gasoline prices and almost no dependence on oil from outside North America, we need more refineries.
Oil has increased in price, even though the dollar has remained relatively stable in recent months.
Since price deflation is a greater threat to profits than stable or rising inflation, in theory this should also be good for equities.
After more than a decade of the United States' war against cocaine at the source, the price of the drug in the United States remains stable, the supply abundant.
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