Stagflation

In economics, stagflation or recession-inflation is a situation in which the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high. It presents a dilemma for economic policy, since actions intended to lower inflation may exacerbate unemployment. The term, a portmanteau of stagnation and inflation, is generally attributed to Iain Macleod, a British Conservative Party politician who became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1970. Macleod used the word in a 1965 speech to Parliament during a period of simultaneously high inflation and unemployment in the United Kingdom. Warning the House of Commons of the gravity of …

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IGOPP: l'Institut sur la gouvernance d'organisations privées et publiques · 17 April 2024 French

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risque et l'incertitude dans un contexte de stagflation. 20 Informations réglementaires Général Ce rapport


Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 28 February 2024 English

Concur- rently, the world is witnessing the rise of the far right, a trend increasingly accompanied by the repression of rights and freedoms and the shrinking of civil society space. …

International Cooperation Sector 6 Economy Inflation. Stagflation. Shrinkflation. Recession… You name it. We live


Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 28 February 2024 French

Parallèlement, le monde assiste à la montée de l’extrême droite, une tendance qui s’accompagne de plus en plus de la répression des droits et des libertés et du rétrécissement de …

l’espace de la société civile. Économie Inflation. Stagflation. Rapetiflation ou rétréciflation. Récession.


Fraser Institute · 26 October 2023 English

Despite common misperceptions, middle-class workers in Denmark pay relatively high taxes for Denmark’s large government. Indeed, Denmark has a large welfare state paid for by some of the highest personal …

Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. From growth to stagflation The second half of the 1960s marked the start unemployment (see figure 1.13)—what became known as stagflation. These issues were exacerbated by the fact that


Fraser Institute · 28 September 2023 English

Despite common misperceptions, high levels of economic freedom—that is, relying more on entrepreneurs, businessowners and workers to make economic decisions rather than politicians and bureaucrats—drive Denmark’s high living standards. For …

Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. From growth to stagflation The second half of the 1960s marked the start unemployment (see figure 1.13)—what became known as stagflation. These issues were exacerbated by the fact that


Global Risk Institute in Financial Services · 8 September 2023 English

about the structure and potential behaviour of non-bank financial institutions and the dynamics Another area of uncertainty has to do with the of opaque and specialized markets. [...] Whether in …

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Fraser Institute · 18 August 2023 English

Monetary policy transparency has been radically transformed over the past half-century as central banks have become much more open and accountable. This increase in transparency has improved the effectiveness of …

unemployment rates rose to postwar highs and the term “stagflation” was born. While skyrocketing oil prices contributed


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 August 2023 English

Bless Borderblur Poetics for its abundance of obscure ephemeral publications, collected from public and private archives of a paratradition in the field of Canadian Literature, bless its exhumation of this …

That same decade, younger baby boomers faced stagflation as they struggled to find work, and second-wave


Fraser Institute · 7 July 2023 English

The purpose of privately owned businesses has been an increasingly important issue confronting executives and members of corporate boards since Friedman’s iconic 1970 essay that argued that the purpose of …

rapid inflation and above-average unemployment (stagflation) during the 1970s and 1980s, which, in turn,


C.D. Howe Institute · 15 May 2023 English

One reason is the small increase in the gap between the legislated contribution rate and the minimum contribution rate (“minimum rate”). [...] The decrease in the minimum rates can be …

impacts of changes in earnings distributions, stagflation, and climate change. When it comes to assessing


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