The trouble is, the government cannot flood the market with enough imported rice to offset the upward price spiral of domestic rice sold by private traders.
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In any case, the American economy has exhibited a surprising ability for several years to grow at robust rates without setting off inflationary wage and price spirals.
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Likewise, observing a few price decreases may give rise to a downward price spiral, so in models of this type large fluctuations in asset prices may occur.
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But Garvey expects that because tiny atomic clocks are made using more or less the same technology as microchips, they will follow a similar downward price spiral.
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The more serious the risk that higher inflation will feed into wages and trigger a wage-price spiral, the more urgent it is that a central bank raises interest rates.
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Blinder said Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was correct in saying yesterday that at some point wages may begin to rise rapidly, posing the threat of a wage-price spiral.
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But each time oil prices took off, they also prompted or helped perpetuate a broader wage-price spiral, forcing the Fed to react by sharply raising interest rates to control inflation.
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On days when demand was high, some companies had enough electricity that they could withhold to tip the market into an upward price spiral, according to a state regulatory report.
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Neither the Fed nor economists want to see the United States, struggling for three years to overcome the bursting of the stock market bubble, follow Japan into a falling price spiral.
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Before rushing to cut the tax, the public and its politicians could use the Energy Department report Clinton has ordered to help explain the price spiral and estimate its probable duration.
