runaway inflation

基本解釋

Markets will warn you when they begin to expect runaway inflation .
如果出現(xiàn)惡性通貨膨脹，市場本身就會發(fā)出警告。
To be sure, Chinese government authorities have sought to slow the rise in housing prices amid fears that runaway inflation may force them to clamp down even harder on the economy.
誠然，中國政府有關(guān)當局已經(jīng)力圖緩解房價上漲，因為他們擔心通貨膨脹失控可能會迫使他們對經(jīng)濟進行更嚴厲的整頓。
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Runaway inflation is usually the result of fiscal excess, financed by printing money, or rigid labour markets, which produce a wage-price spiral that the central bank fails to stop.
失控的通脹通常會造成財政支出過度、超發(fā)貨幣融資、勞動力市場更嚴峻。從而引發(fā)連央行也無能為力的工資-物價螺旋上升的勢頭。

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