Inflation Rate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Inflation rate
Inflation rate, the pace of change in the prices of goods and services in a particular period. The primary indexes for measuring the rate are the Consumer Price Index and the Producer Price Index, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 782....
index
index : a numerical measure or indicator (as of inflation or economic performance) see also consumer price index vt : to link (as wages, rates, or investments) to an index [under the contract wages were ed to inflation] ...
hyperinflation
an unusually rapid rate of monetary inflation as when prices rise more than 100 per cent per year...
monetarism
An economic theory holding that the rate of growth of the money supply is the priunciple cause of changes in inflation economic growth and unemployment...
nominal
nominal 1 : existing or being something in name or form but usually not in reality [defenses…raised by the corporation as defendant in a derivative suit "R. C. Clark"] 2 : being so small or trivial as to be a mere token [charging a fee] 3 of a rate of interest a : equal to the annual rate of simple interest that would obtain if interest were not compounded when in fact it is compounded and paid for periods of less than a year b : equal to the percentage by which a repaid loan exceeds the principal borrowed with no adjustment made for inflation compare effective nom·i·nal·ly adv ...
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