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- verb Present participle of
reinflate .
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Examples
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Long-term rates did in fact rise sharply last fall, but recently, on the heels of the economic slowdown and the Federal Reserve's "pledge" to keep interest rates low for the next two years, U.S. Treasury rates plunged to even lower levels than last summer, reinflating the bubble to the bursting point.
The Bond Bubble and the Case for Stocks Jeremy J. Siegel 2011
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February 21st, 2009 at 12: 50 am the idea that we have to choose between letting housing prices dive-bomb into oblivion and reinflating the bubble is preposterous
Matthew Yglesias » Crook: Obama Housing Plan “Seems Well Thought Out” 2009
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Near the top of the list of potential pitfalls: reinflating the real-estate bubble that the government has spent the past 20 months trying to deflate.
China's Bind: How to Avoid a Crash Landing Tom Orlik 2011
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The policy that Irwin describes with some skepticism, but which Klein apparently views as a godsend, runs the risk of repeating the exact same mistake and reinflating the same bubble.
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Through steep progressive taxes on the super-wealthy, fair income taxes on hedge funds and transaction fees on Wall Street's proprietary trading, we can keep that bubble from reinflating -- and in the process raise the money we need to put America back to work.
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Through steep progressive taxes on the super-wealthy, fair income taxes on hedge funds and transaction fees on Wall Street's proprietary trading, we can keep that bubble from reinflating -- and in the process raise the money we need to put America back to work.
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Until that point, and my opinion is government should be cushioning the blow, not reinflating air into the bubble, nothing will get better.
James Boyce: Will Obama's Plan Let The Air Out Of The Bubble Slowly? 2009
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It looks like an attempt at reinflating the housing bubble.
Garrett Johnson: What Will an Economic Recovery Build Upon? 2009
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“So our greatest test will be reinflating the ship.”
LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009
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Dismissing it, instead, with the image of a balloon bursting helps us to stop reinflating our fantasy.
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