Some experts attributed the price spiral to conservation efforts and mild Western temperatures, which have reduced the need to run air conditioners.
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Since then, some long-term trends _ globalization, deregulation, the computer revolution _ have made the economy less susceptible to bottlenecks and wage-price spirals.
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Wages " haven't moved up in any way that suggest we're headed for a wage-price spiral, " said Carpenter of ASB Capital Management.
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Energy Secretary Bill Richardson on Tuesday ruled out using the U . S . strategic oil reserve to help ease the price spiral.
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The U . S . economy is growing slowly but steadily with little risk of an upward wage-price spiral soon, say the Fed officials.
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Davis said the long-term contracts between the state and power generators helped break the price spiral that had driven electricity prices to record heights.
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A decade-long economic slump in Japan compounded by deflation, in which prices spiral downward, depressing income and profits, while inflating the burden of debts.
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Successive administrations attempted to finance heavy deficits during the " lost decade " with paper currency soon made worthless by the relentless price spiral.
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Everett Ehrlich, undersecretary of Commerce for economic affairs, said businesses have " room for modest increase in wages without setting off the wage price spiral,"
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Monetary overhang meant that price liberalization might convert repressed inflation into open inflation, increase the price level still further and generate a price spiral.
