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How to use the word transitory in a Sentence?

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From long experience we expect the inflation effects of these increases to be transitory.

Lawrence Summers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do think it more likely that the bad news on inflation is more transitory than the good news on jobs, and if you went back two years ago and offered me the choice of whether to risk somewhat overheating the economy, as we did this time, or undershooting and creating a long, slow, tepid recovery, as we did in 2008, I would have chosen the risk of overheating.

Justin Wolfers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've got a long way to go. I don't think it's impossible though, clearly, the markets have been quite complacent about The Federal Reserve. And The Federal Reserve has contributed to The Federal Reserve by downplaying the risks and describing inflation as transitory.

Ethan Harris

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Markets are worried about a more hawkish type of tapering, the Fed could drop its characterization of inflation as being transitory, and the second thing is the markets are saying as soon as the Fed gets done with its tapering, they’re going hike rates.

Marc Chandler

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

There is an element of complacency. Markets have been trying to make up their mind on whether inflation is transitory, are supply chain disruptions are going to translate into higher costs, but this week’s earnings from various companies are assuaging some of those concerns that companies won’t be able to pass on some of these cost rises to consumers, and that’s why we are seeing the increase in risk.

Mike Hewson

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Inflationary pressures do not look to be as transitory as the major central banks have been claiming, with the markets increasingly taking this view and leading to the tightening we have been seeing in the financial markets.

Stuart Cole

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

But the broader trend supports what we believe – and what’s been echoed by everyone from the Federal Reserve to the markets, and private-sector forecasters – that inflation is transitory as we recover from the pandemic.

The Labor Department on Tuesday

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Let's say the Fed is wrong and inflation's not transitory — then there's a lot of catch-up they need to play.

Lawrence Gillum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It still screams transitory to us, if we're wrong, it could shorten the economic cycle that we're in.

Stephanie Roth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Inflation fears should dissipate a bit as growth worries come into play because of The Delta variant. I think The Fed will be proven to be correct about inflation as being largely transitory.

Leo Grohowski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The dry kindling for sustained inflation is probably here, banks have a lot of ammo to lend money. And wages are accelerating because the labor market is tight. This looks more than transitory.

Andrew Feltus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s becoming increasingly difficult for the Fed to be able to reconcile its stance that inflation is transitory.

Joel Kruger

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

It’s becoming increasingly difficult for the Fed to be able to reconcile its stance that inflation is transitory. At some point the definition of transitory is called into question.

Joel Kruger

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Everybody is just really uncertain on the transitory inflation narrative, it feels like we need to get three more months of data before we can really get a grip on this market.

John Hardy

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We know inflation will be transitory – it’s a question of how long it takes for the year-on-year change to head back to 2%, a number below 4.5% on the headline print and we should see USD/JPY and USD/CHF under pressure.

Chris Weston

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

My back-of-the-envelope playbook is that we’d need a headline year-on-year number north of 5.5% to really set this market ablaze, we know inflation will be transitory – it’s a question of how long it takes for the year-on-year change to head back to 2%.

Chris Weston

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

So can further evidence that the FOMC’s outlook for inflation is shifting. In particular, analysts will look for signs that the FOMC is less confident the spike in inflation will be transitory, or that the FOMC’s tolerance for an inflation overshoot is waning.

Joe Capurso

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Inflation is up, but real yields are still low, this is basically the transitory sweet spot.

Jamie Cox

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We were never good at forecasting. Nobody is, not even the brilliant minds at the The Fed, i pray The Fed will be right. I hope it's transitory. It's not clear it will be.

Dallas Fed president Richard FisherFor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These transitory developments should have few direct implications for inflation over the medium term.

England Governor Andrew Bailey

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I don't think this is transitory, the Fed is probably going to have to raise rates sooner rather than later.

Michelle Connell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Each big inflation report for the next several months will test the Fed’s approach to seeing through these issues it promises to be transitory.

Will Compernolle

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Going forward, the big question is just how long can the Fed maintain its dovish stance in opposition to the markets, particularly if companies begin raising wages to encourage unemployed labor back into the workforce, in turn driving a large hole in the Fed’s transitory inflation argument.

Stuart Cole

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Remaining patient through the transitory surge associated with reopening will help ensure that the underlying economic momentum that will be needed to reach our goals as some current tailwinds shift to headwinds is not curtailed by a premature tightening of financial conditions.

Loretta Mester

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

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