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The Mountain division of the Western U.S. had the highest inflation rate in 2022, but it has the lowest rate in 2024 — 2.0% compared to the national average of 2.9% as of July.
If inflation becomes too high, it can cause people to severely curtail their use of the currency, leading to an acceleration in the inflation rate. High and accelerating inflation grossly interferes with the normal workings of the economy, hurting its ability to supply goods.
In July 2022, the Fed increased the interest rate for the third time in the year, [138] yet inflation remained high outpacing the growth in wages [139] and spending. [140] According to the Economic Policy Institute the minimum wage was worth less than any time since 1956 due to inflation.
Interest rate changes often cannot keep up with hyperinflation or even high inflation, certainly with contractually fixed interest rates. For example, in the 1970s in the United Kingdom inflation reached 25% per annum, yet interest rates did not rise above 15%—and then only briefly—and many fixed interest rate loans existed.
The inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s peaked at 14.8% in March 1980 before the Fed exorcized high prices with aggressive rate hikes that caused brutal back-to-back recessions in 1980 and 1981 ...
For the 12 months ending in January, inflation amounted to 7.5% — the fastest year-over-year pace since 1982 — the Labor Department said Thursday. Consumers felt the price squeeze in everyday ...
Monetary inflation is a sustained increase in the money supply of a country (or currency area). Depending on many factors, especially public expectations, the fundamental state and development of the economy, and the transmission mechanism, it is likely to result in price inflation, which is usually just called "inflation", which is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services.
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