iht.com - 11/27/2008
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TOKYO : Japan is facing the biggest threat of deflation among industrialized nations next year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicted Tuesday, warning that the global financial crisis could further damage an economy already in recession. The prices of Japanese ...
bloomberg.com - 11/20/2008
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bloomberg.com —
Bernanke May Find Deflation `Back on the Table'
as Fed Concern By Steve Matthews Nov. 20 (Bloomberg)...
-- Five years after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke helped stamp out the risk of deflation, the threat is returning as the financial crisis ...
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Bernanke May Find Deflation `Back on the Table' as ...
declineandfallofwesterncivilization.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008
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declineandfallofwesterncivilization.blogspot.com —
the call from morgan stanley . Despite still
relatively high CPI and PPI inflation at the current...
juncture, we believe that a perfect storm for deflation is gathering strength under the surface and is expected to bring about a deflationary impulse in 1H09, which may morph into persistent ...
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deflation in china
gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008
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gregmankiw.blogspot.com —
From Google Trends , here is a graph
of the i nternet search volume for the word...
"deflation." Note the sizable spike of late. Presumably, this is not because motorists are suddenly worried about their tires running out of air.
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Daily Dose of Deflation 27Nov2008
GalaTime —
IHT: Japan faces deflation
The prices of Japanese business services fell by the largest amount in five years in the year ending in October because of a slump in freight costs, fueling concerns that Japan might return to deflation in the latter half of next year. ...
Japan Deflation Risk Grows As Industrial Output Falls Sharply
Japan Economy Watch —
... is no immediate likelihood of a return to ZIRP.The Bank of Japan currently forecasts core consumer inflation of 1.6 percent in the fiscal year to next March 31, followed by zero price growth in the following year, but these numbers are almost certainly going to be revised downwards. Masaaki Shirakawa's rather complacent view of the deflation threat is not held on this blog, nor is it held by a number of other "Japan watchers", among them the OECD, who last week stated that Japan is facing the biggest threat of deflation among industrialized nations next year. Shirawaka's view ...
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