How to Use inflationary spiral in a Sentence

inflationary spiral

noun

• The new money caused an inflationary spiral that eroded the value of any savings people had.
  — Declan Walsh, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• The state consumer counsel said ratepayers are already struggling to keep up with a steep inflationary spiral.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2022
• One of the big ones is the possibility of setting off a further inflationary spiral.
  — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
• The risk of an inflationary spiral arises when policy makers first dismiss the problem and then cast blame elsewhere.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• Even before the Russian attack on Ukraine, oil and gasoline prices were in an inflationary spiral.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• The great inflationary spiral may be peaking after causing everything from rutabagas to Prime beef to soar.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Many commodities from copper to lumber have dropped from their peak pandemic prices, easing the most acute worries about an inflationary spiral.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 27 June 2021
• Theories that held that unions were setting off an inflationary spiral by pushing for raises were one example of this kind of theory.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Sep. 2020
• Paul Volcker raised interest rates and kept them up until the inflationary spiral was broken.
  — Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
• The freeze persuaded organized labor to temper wage demands and broke what had been an inflationary spiral of price and wage hikes that sapped consumer buying power.
  — William N. Walker, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
• The concern is that as employers are desperate to hire, workers will push for higher wages, which then have to be offset by higher prices, causing an inflationary spiral.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• Mester doesn’t necessarily believe higher wages are leading to higher prices in some sort of inflationary spiral, as some analysts have feared.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• But others view the inflationary spiral as more complicated and less political.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
• Conversely, the working class depends on wages and salaries staying above inflation, which is difficult to obtain in practice once an inflationary spiral takes hold.
  — Fortune, 16 Nov. 2021
• In addition to falling vacancy, some in the real estate industry point to an inflationary spiral as a reason rents are heading higher.
  — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• Experts from government think tanks and institutions warn of a potential inflationary spiral.
  — Andrei Yakovlev, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2025
• The inflationary spiral, caused by the Covid pandemic and exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, has spilled over globally.
  — Liz Capo McCormick and bloomberg, Fortune, 3 July 2022
• While prices for many metals remain above prepandemic levels, their retreat from records eases some immediate concerns about supply shocks adding to an inflationary spiral.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• The Singapore dollar may have to stay strong to ensure that an artificially tight labor market doesn’t trigger an inflationary spiral, though there’s no sign of one yet.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2019
• Specifically, the jobless rate can fall lower and government budget deficits can run higher than was once widely believed without setting off an inflationary spiral.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2021
• The Fed can reduce inflation by raising interest rates, but interest rates need not exceed inflation to prevent an inflationary spiral.
  — John H. Cochrane, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• But a Fed driven by a president’s political whims could cut rates or keep them lower than appropriate, risking an inflationary spiral that lasts long beyond the next election.
  — Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
• Moreover, some economists think the destabilizing effect of politicizing the Fed would cause market anxiety that sets off an inflationary spiral.
  — Ben Adler, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
• The pandemic accelerated the move to automation; as explained in earlier blogs, an inflationary spiral is caused by something putting constant upward pressure on prices.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• But even assuming a future inflationary spiral, US utilities are far more prepared as businesses than in the 1970s.
  — Roger Conrad, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
• Sanctions enacted against Russia have sharply limited the central bank’s ability to defend its local currency and prevent an inflationary spiral.
  — David Luhnow, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• She was said to believe that doing so would heighten Argentina’s inflationary spiral, and that logic has also inflected Fernández’s refusal to issue greater bills.
  — Federico Perelmuter, The New Republic, 21 June 2022
• Istanbul’s stock market was twice forced to halt trading and the Turkish lira continued to fall Friday as concerns deepened that recent interest-rate cuts could cause an inflationary spiral.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• But critics such as former treasury secretary Larry Summers warn of an inflationary spiral resembling the decade-long rise that began in the late 1960s.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• The union victory in the famous GE strike during the Nixon administration won salary increases for workers but contributed to an inflationary spiral.
  — Thomas S. Hibbs, National Review, 31 Aug. 2017