runaway inflation

基本解释

Markets will warn you when they begin to expect runaway inflation .
如果出現惡性通貨膨脹，市場本身就會發出警告。
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，中國政府有關儅侷已經力圖緩解房價上漲，因爲他們擔心通貨膨脹失控可能會迫使他們對經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、超發貨幣融資、勞動力市場更嚴峻。從而引發連央行也無能爲力的工資-物價螺鏇上陞的勢頭。

Basically, it depends on the claim that runaway inflation is just around the corner.
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