6 sentences with “inflation”

Moreover, so much gold bullion was shipped to Europe that inflation undermined its value, another factor that weakened Spanish power over time.

Workers were paid in wheelbarrows full of money at the start of their lunch hour, so they had time to buy some food before inflation forced shopkeepers to raise prices in the afternoon.

Napoleon tackled the chronic problem of inflation by improving tax collection and public auditing, creating the Bank of France in 1800, and substituting silver and gold for the almost useless paper notes.

Another of his goals is to bring down inflation. "Inflation," he says, "not only hurts business, competitiveness and investment; it hits the most vulnerable section of our society hard - pensioners and other people on fixed incomes.

Until June 1791, the National Assembly tried to build a constitutional monarchy, even as it faced growing hostility among the great powers of Europe, all of them monarchies, along with problems of inflation and famine in the countryside.

The main problem is that EU member nations cannot control their own economies beyond a certain point: they cannot devalue the currency to deal with inflation, they are nominally prevented from allowing their own national debts to exceed a certain level of their Gross Domestic Product (3%, at least in theory), and so on.