Discover how deflation increases purchasing power yet risks higher unemployment and debt defaults. Learn its impact on consumers and the broader economy.

Explore the surprising benefits of deflation as seen in Switzerland, and understand when falling prices can signal economic growth instead of downturn.

If inflation, a rising general price level, hurts people, don’t falling prices help them? If so, why is there all the news about central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, being scared of ...

Outside of the Great Depression in the early 1930s and for a very short period during the nation’s economic collapse in 2008 and 2009, the United States has not seen an extended period of the economic ...

Deflation: What It Means For Global Economies & Corporates What’s So Bad About Deflation? Who’s Most At Risk? The decline in eurozone prices is the most dramatic example of deflationary pressures ...

Equities internationally and bonds in Greece, Ireland, Spain and Italy have fallen this morning while gold rose to new record nominal highs in euros and pounds (over EUR1,118/oz GBP980/oz respectively ...

The Fed is in an awkward position, as was clear from Janet Yellen’s tough slog through her December 17 press conference. The Fed’s main message – that monetary tightening (interest rate boosts) will ...

While some of the most developed countries in the world including the US and many European countries suffer from high increases in consumer and energy prices, a few countries are facing deflation.

China has a new central-bank boss. Pan Gongsheng, who became governor of the People’s Bank of China on July 25th, is a technocrat. His career, which includes a phd in economics, research at Cambridge ...

The last time the U.S. experienced deflation was during the Great Depression. Deflation is a general decline in prices caused by the reduction of credit and money supply. In 2009 we got a little taste ...

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