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Why is deflation dangerous for the economy?
Deflation is almost always bad.
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Oh, what a magnificent deflation of smugness!
Yes, for inflation, deflation and reflation.
To control deflation, which is the phenomenon of falling wages and prices, the government would simply spend more money into existence.
When hyperinflation occurs after deflation here, and all these trillions of dollars come back and we are wheeling wheelbarrows of thousand dollar bills to buy a loaf of bread, the only thing people will accept for goods is gonna be gold.
Setting aside the deflation of the egos of our great.
You'll see deflation happening here as heat takes away the surface of the glacier, the surface drops.
These include, overhead legal charges, deflation and motisation, currency fluctuation, foreign exchange and a few other incidentals.
I've heard of deflation, but this is preposterous.
It's deflation, prices are failing.
If you actually go to a store and you benchmark the price of a garment over the last 20 years, you will find that there's actually a deflation of the product, i.e., the price has gone down over time.
You know what deflation is?
Yorkshire pudding? Mother had a deflation moment.
News and current affairs
Using this macro-historical framework, we can see Japanese deflation, European debt, and even the Arab Spring as phases of systemic changes within complex structures that are interacting with one another in a new, multipolar global system.
We live in an age of simultaneous fear of inflation and deflation; of unprecedented prosperity amid growing inequality; and of technological advancement and resource depletion.
After its banking crisis of 1987-1989, Japan experienced two decades of stagnation and deflation with skyrocketing government debt.
Deflation increased real interest rates and curbed economic activity, thereby setting off another round of deflation, and so on.
Today, as central bankers in developed countries fret about the threat of deflation, Brazilian politicians are once again forced to respond to widespread fears about slowing growth and a return to high inflation.
Likewise, post-deflation Japan could promise never again to resort to massive intervention to stop its currency from appreciating.
Moreover, three years of price deflation - which began during the financial crisis of 1997 - may be at an end.
Perhaps it is deflation.
But it would be strange to conclude from Greece's experience that wage deflation is a useless tool for improving competitiveness, given the widespread assumption that Germany benefited massively from it.
Inflation and deflation of debts produce very different outcomes.
Deflation, on the other hand, increases debt, and feels like being smothered by a lead blanket.
In the interwar Great Depression, the economist Irving Fisher accurately described the process of debt deflation, in which lenders, worried by the deterioration of their asset quality, called in their loans, pushing borrowers to liquidate assets.
The political response to deflation is to call for a stronger state.
On one side is concern about another downturn and deflation.
In the short term, it is important that monetary policy in the US and Europe vigilantly fight Japanese-style deflation, which would only exacerbate debt problems by lowering incomes relative to debts.
Indeed, except for deflation-ridden Japan, central bankers could meet just about anywhere and see high and rising inflation.
This caused a credit crunch and prolonged deflation in the late 1990's, as the central government tried to clean up the mess.
The prevailing strategy in Europe remains simply to force internal devaluation on the southern countries, with excessive austerity aimed at causing severe wage and price deflation.
The country was no longer subject to imported deflation via the fixed exchange rate.
In the late 1990's, both economies were growing (rapidly in the Spanish case), whereas now they face hard times and a mounting risk of deflation.
But the combination of crisis and austerity condemned China to several years of deflation and considerably slower growth.
In his election campaign, and since coming to power, Abe has advocated a radical revitalization of the Japanese economy that would end two decades of deflation and growing political and strategic uncertainty.
Abenomics' goal is to escape two decades of deflation.
Japan, at long last, will not have to fight deflation with one hand tied behind its back.
For both sides, it is more desirable to let the adjustment take place through changes in nominal exchange rates, which would help contain deflation in the north and inflation in the south.
Last but not the least as a reason not to devalue, China is struggling with deflation and a slowdown in the country's growth rate.
France's role would be to ensure that the weaker countries don't fall victim to enduring deflation.