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adj. - Characteristic of or promoting a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment while prices rise

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  • The April result was the lowest since March 1982's level of 62.0, when the 'stagflationary' period of low growth and high inflation was still fresh in the memory of many...
  • The April result was the lowest since March 1982\'s level of 62.0, when the "stagflationary" period of low growth and high inflation was still fresh in the memory of...
  • U.S. stocks rose as General Motors jolted higher on its visions of a battery-driven future and as financial stocks like J.P. Morgan Chase rebounded despite economic data that...
  • These were the years of president Jimmy Carter, widely ridiculed as 'stagflationary'.
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