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Inflation Rate

A measure of how fast a currency loses its value. That is, the inflation rate measures how fast prices for goods and services rise over time, or how much less one unit of currency buys now compared to one unit of currency at a given time in the past. The inflation rate may increase due to massive printing of money, which increases supply in the economy and thus reduces demand. Equally, it may occur because certain important commodities become rarer and thus more expensive. Central banks attempt to control the inflation rate by increasing and decreasing the money supply. The inflation rate is important to fixed-income securities, as the returns on these securities may not keep up with inflation, and thus result in a net loss for the investor. See also: CPI, Deflation.

Inflation rate. The inflation rate is a measure of changing prices, typically calculated on a month-to-month and year-to-year basis and expressed as a percentage.

For example, each month the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates the inflation rate that affects average urban US consumers, based on the prices for about 80,000 widely used goods and services. That figure is reported as the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

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Automatic Increase in Insurance Endorsement
Band
Central Bank of Iceland
Creeping Inflation
Disinflation
Dobra
Fisher Effect
GDP Price Deflator
Inflation Uncertainty
Inflation-Adjusted Return
Inflation-Protected Annuity
International Fisher Effect
International Fisher Relationship
Money Rate of Return
Negative Interest Rate
Real Gain
Real Interest Rate
Real Profit
Real Return Bond

By contrast richer households, particularly those with mortgages, now have very low rates of inflation, often below zero, because of falling interest rates and petrol prices.

Pensioners bearing brunt of inflation by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)

The agency said high rates of inflation can have indirect consequences on the sovereign ratings of a country through fiscal, political and economic channels.

Moody's gives Lebanon poor notes on inflation sensitivity index by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)

After 1981, lower rates of inflation in all countries were eventually manifested, sooner or later, in lower rates of interest.

A STUDY OF INTEREST RATES IN THE LONGER RUN: NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF ... by Schnitzel, Paul / American Economist

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