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Hawk An adviser or policymaker who is consistently concerned with inflation. That is, hawks favor maintaining low inflation over promoting high economic growth. As a result, hawks tend to prefer central banks to set relatively high interest rates. The term "hawk" may apply to persons who are concerned with another economic policy (e.g. deficit hawk), but the term, by itself, usually refers to an inflation hawk. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Louis, and could move prices lower should he project the same sort of cryptic hawkishness channeled by chairman Ben Bernanke last week. To be sure, its apparent hawkishness may provide the president with cover for a more dovish foreign policy than the voters would otherwise accept. For all the netroots fretting about Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Obama seems to have drawn a line against the most egregious symbols of Democratic hawkishness, such as Madeleine Albright, Kenneth Pollack, and Michael O'Hanlon. |
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