We are already suffering from a mild inflation, thanks to Alan Greenspan's over-printing of the greenback.
This is a key reason many economists consider mild inflation to be preferable to mild deflation.
Inflation, even mild inflation, destroys confidence in the future value of money under a discretionary government fiat money regime.
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We should also not overlook the threat to economic freedom posed by even mild inflation, as the U.S. experiment with wage-price controls illustrated in the early 1970s.
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It is important to consider inflation because even mild rates of inflation have profound effects over long periods of time.
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Current measures to control inflation are too mild and thus may actually fan the fires of inflation.
Official figures show only a mild downturn and low inflation, but they are worth little: Mr Kirchner put stooges in the statistics office and they massage the numbers.
In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Fed stood by its plan to keep short-term interest rates at record lows at least until unemployment falls to 6.5 percent, as long as the inflation outlook remains mild.
Consumer price inflation may be relatively mild in a broad sense, but American food companies are facing a battle with higher input costs that is showing up in quarterly earnings.
German bunds rallied by 37 ticks to 120.41 as investors flocked to its safety despite a mild acceleration in the pace of EU inflation during March, which rose to 2.4%.
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Inflation may continue a trend of mild rebound, staying at 2.2 percent due to higher food prices at the year end.
By raising interest rates to prick the bubble of inflation, the Fed induces a mild recession that is particularly hard on smaller companies.
Yet bizarrely, the Bank of Japan seems to think its credibility is more at risk from reignited inflation than from the stigma of mild deflation.
While inflation over the last few years has been very mild in the US, hovering around 2% per year, Bill Gross has been predicting that there will be major inflation over the next several decades.
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Print money and get inflation a disamenity, to be sure, but a mild one and watch the most dreaded thing of all, unemployment, decline.
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