How to Use stagflation in a Sentence

stagflation

noun
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  • We are stuck at step eight of the ten steps of stagflation.
    — Cale Clingenpeel, National Review, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The tragedy of Vietnam and the stagflation of the 1970s killed the trickle-up vision.
    — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 7 May 2021
  • This certainly does not look like the stagflation of the 1970s.
    — Joseph H. Davis For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The short-term Treasuries are the thing to have if stagflation is our destiny.
    — William Baldwin, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Alan Greenspan warns about a bubble in bonds and the return of stagflation.
    — Ainsley Thomson, Bloomberg.com, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The last time the U.S. experienced stagflation was in the 1970’s.
    — Fortune, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Economists project stagflation as a high risk that would reflect on some of the largest economies in the world.
    — Derek Gallimore, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • That’s a good sign for the Fed’s inflation fight—and for investors that feared the return of stagflation.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 3 May 2024
  • There was a whiff of stagflation in the latest housing numbers.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 July 2021
  • During the stagflation of the 1970s, Microsoft was born.
    — Business Forum | Steve Grove, Star Tribune, 22 Nov. 2020
  • In this scenario, there is something akin to the stagflation the U.S. experienced in the 1970s.
    — Jan Mischke, Fortune, 8 June 2023
  • The stagflation of the past, so obvious to us now, was ambiguous then.
    — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Ben Bernanke, the former Fed chair, also used this word stagflation.
    — CBS News, 22 May 2022
  • If the stagflation narrative takes hold, things could get bumpy.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2021
  • In a stagflation scenario, there's even less the government can do.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The 1970s were the decade of strikes, recession, oil crises, stagflation, crumbling cities, rising crime.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The combination of weak growth and rising prices is raising the specter of stagflation.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 16 May 2024
  • The economy is in a recession, and stagflation may be around the corner.
    — Garrett Bess, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
  • When will stagflation set in for the United States economy?
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • Nevertheless, Alankar fears the endgame could be the return of stagflation.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The World Bank warned on Tuesday that global economies were at risk of stagflation, if not recession.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 13 June 2022
  • As for the specter of stagflation, the jobless rate has remained low and steady at 3.6%, though rising interest rates could change that.
    — David Oshinsky, WSJ, 29 July 2022
  • Economist Stephen Roach warned last year that the world is a busted supply chain away from stagflation.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 12 Oct. 2021
  • But on Wall Street, the level of attention on stagflation is soaring.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Many economists are not too worried about stagflation in the United States right now.
    — Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Still, Coutino sees only a small chance of stagflation, a view shared by most economists.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 19 May 2022
  • And concerns about stagflation have been a factor in the recent stock market declines.
    — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
  • And what will be the market consequence of a return to inflation and stagflation?
    — Nouriel Roubini, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
  • If the economy is in recession, or if there’s stagflation, Democrats may have to listen.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 July 2022
  • This crude and haphazard stability for the dollar brought an end to the 1970s stagflation.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 5 May 2023

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