<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Every morning on NPR Maureen McCallister talks about the impending interest rate hike to ward off inflation.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Are there any studies correlating inflation with growth/contraction?  Are there limits, above which, inflation causes contraction?</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>