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Should You Worry About Deflation?
Should You Worry About Deflation?
Of course not. It's the people's best friend, especially in a depression. Article by Doug French.
FT.com / Companies / Financials - In a weird world, yields on Tips point to deflation
ft.com — Would you believe that we shall actually have significant deflation in the US next year? And the year after that? And flat consumer prices for the year following? That's happened only once in a developed country since the 1930s - when Japan recorded a ... (more) FT.com / Companies / Financials - In a weird world, ...
Industrial Bond Yields Strongly Support Deflation Thesis
Industrial Bond Yields Strongly Support Deflation Thesis
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com — As one might expect in a credit crunch, default risk is rising. One measure of that risk is corporate bond yields. Let's take a look and see how various grades of bonds are performing. Click on any chart in this series to see a sharper image.  ... (more) Industrial Bond Yields Strongly Support Deflation Thesis
Abandon all hope once you enter deflation
Abandon all hope once you enter deflation
telegraph.co.uk — Deflation now threatens the broader economy writes Ambrose EvansPritchard. (more) Abandon all hope once you enter deflation
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Solving The "Problem" Of Deflation
Stefan Karlsson's blog — Doug French has an article on LRC about deflation today, where he quotes the worries of people like James K. Galbraith, Arthur Laffer and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard about deflation. ...

Deflation....We Could Use Some...
Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays — ... back in 1720. Law couldn’t keep his bubble inflated and neither will Bernanke and his fellow central bankers. While central bankers furiously try to re-inflate, cheered on by the mainstream financial media, monetary authorities should deflate the money supply, pulling in their horns like consumers are doing. Deflation is a "great liberating force," writes Hülsmann, "because it destroys the economic basis of the social engineers, spin doctors, and brain washers." Original Post Doug French is executive vice president of the Ludwig von Mises ...

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