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Inflation, Deflation, Debt - NYTimes.com [#]
The answer is, I think, easier to understand by considering the reverse case: the problem of debt-deflation. Here a falling price level increases the real value of all debts — and Irving Fisher famously argued that this has a ...
Paul Krugman (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:53:20 GMT) |
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Even Wild Government Spending Can't Stop Deflation Now [#]
This has many thinking that this is likely to create inflation. However, what many fail to realize is that the private sector is destroying capital, largely debt, more rapidly than the government can spend it. This creates deflation. ...
Business Insider (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:46:02 GMT) |
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Geithner To Japan And Switzerland: Eat Deflation [#]
No support for coming for a currency intervention.
Business Insider (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:49:08 GMT) |
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Geithner to Japan/Switzerland: Eat Deflation | zero hedge [#]
Geithner to Japan/Switzerland: Eat Deflation? I wrote a few days ago that I thought we were seeing evidence of growing instability in the FX markets. The problem is with the “Strongs”. The Yen and the CHF are both at near records ...
zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:47:59 GMT) |
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Product Guru: Deflation - The “Silent Killer's” Evil Twin - On ... [#]
So will we have inflation or deflation in the next 12 months? I can say with some authority: Yeah, probably.
On Wall Street - Breaking News (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:27:03 GMT) |
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Rosey's Outlook: Wage Deflation Alert: New Job Means Lower Wages ... [#]
People earning less is exactly what wage deflation is all about. It's a function of supply and demand, and decreasing income is nothing more complicated than simple economics. Since there is no real economic growth on Main Street, ...
Rosey's Outlook (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:39:00 GMT) |
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Daily Digest 9/2 - Bernanke And Deflation, Economists Question ... [#]
What Bernanke Doesn't Understand About Deflation The Fourth Turning: Skies Darkening A Termite-Riddled House: Treasury Bonds Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis Economists Question 8.8% Q1 GDP Growth Number Ben “Willy-Nilly”
Chris Martenson - Daily Digest (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:40:29 GMT) |
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How to cope with the fear of deflation - MoneyWeek [#]
Fear of deflation is just as bad as deflation itself. Both can be devastating for the markets. Merryn Somerset Webb explains why, and how to protect your wealth.
MoneyWeek RSS - All (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:15:00 GMT) |
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Bernanke Fed Drives Deflation With Zero Rate Policy | zero hedge [#]
The Fed's zero rate policy is feeding deflation by reducing the yield on all investment assets to below economic levels. And the huge price risk embedded in under-priced fixed income securities represents the next bubble in financial ...
zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:36:54 GMT) |
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Guest Post: Defeating Demon Deflation - Blogs at Chris Martenson [#]
by machinehead This article ran for our enrolled users last week and is one in a series from respected guest commentators while Chris is vacationing with his family and working on his new book. Many of you will recognize today's author ...
Chris Martenson Blogs (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:47:31 GMT) |
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Market Talk » Blog Archive » Deflation Defense [#]
Market uncertainty has many investors playing defense, but financial advisor Ron Carson shares an offensive move he's using with high-net worth clients. And if deflation does hit the economy there are several ways to prepare. ...
Market Talk (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:51:38 GMT) |
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Home-price deflation, Round 2? | Money & Company | Los Angeles Times [#]
Plenty of air has come out of the housing bubble over the last three years. But I make the case in my weekend column in the Times that the stunning collapse of home sales in July warns that prices in...
Money & Company (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:00:00 GMT) |
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What Bernanke doesn't understand about deflation | Steve Keen's ... [#]
The idea of debt-deflation goes back to Irving Fisher (1933). Fisher envisioned a dynamic process in which falling asset and commodity prices created pressure on nominal debtors, forcing them into distress sales of assets, which in turn ...
Steve Keen's Debtwatch (Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:54:06 GMT) |
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Bernanke talks tough on deflation The Fed - MarketWatch [#]
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the central bank would not sit idly and let the US economy sink into a period of deflation.
MarketWatch Community - Comments - JanPaul (Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:48:45 GMT) |
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Geithner to Japan and Switzerland: Eat Deflation? [#]
Original Article from Seeking Alpha Dollar Currencies Bruce Krasting submits:I wrote a few days ago that I thought we were seeing evidence of growing.
Genuine Forex Trading (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:47:48 GMT) |
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ePooper.com » Blog Archive » The deflation hypothesis [#]
The deflation hypothesis. 0. Posted by Tobbzn | Posted in Astrophysics | Posted on 03-09-2010. Tags: Cosmology. I'm a first year physics student, and I've recently read up on some wikipedia cosmology and talked to some people who are ...
ePooper.com (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:51 GMT) |
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Deflation, A Very Dangerous Possibility | FHA Mortgage Blog [#]
Wikepedia defines “deflation” as: In economics, deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services. Deflation occurs when the.
FHA Mortgage Blog (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:51:24 GMT) |
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Is Ben Bernanke Worried About Deflation? -- Daily Intel [#]
And, if Bernanke's speech today is any indication, he's laying the groundwork for more aggressive Fed action against deflation. (Quick recap: In recent months, fears of inflation have kept the central bank from cutting rates, ...
Daily Intel (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:52:00 GMT) |
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Wonk City: More on Deflation and Interest Rates « Modeled Behavior [#]
We are far, far, far from that but this debate over deflation is getting sufficiently wonky that a boy can dream. If only there was some easy way to incorporate an equation editor into a blog writer, we would be off to the races. ...
Modeled Behavior (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:41:03 GMT) |
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Japan Plunges Even Deeper Into Deflation [#]
Japan remains mired in deflation. The government reported a 1.1% drop for their July core consumer price index (excluding fresh food). This marks the 17th drop in a row. Japan's overall consumer price index fell 0.9% as well, ...
Business Insider (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:36:00 GMT) |
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Learning, Deflation, and Interest Rate increases - Grasping ... [#]
Mark Thoma reminds me that the basic learning point is covered in his colleague George Evans's European Economic Review (2008) paper with Seppo Honkapohja and Eran Guse: >The unintended steady state, with 0 (or near 0) net interest rate ...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:39:58 GMT) |
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No FOMC Member Sees Deflation Risks, Reinvestment For MBS Proceeds ... [#]
No FOMC Member Sees Deflation Risks, Reinvestment For MBS Proceeds Mainly For Keeping Balance Sheet Stable While Chairman Ben Bernanke said last week at the Jackson Hole conference that the Fed outlined several stimulus measures boost ...
Action Forex (ALL) (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:07:29 GMT) |
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Deflation: How low will they go? | The Economist [#]
With economic growth painfully slow throughout the rich world it will be a long time before the threat of deflation can be written off. Central banks are not only likely to keep their policy rates on hold for the foreseeable future, ...
Free exchange (Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:29:09 GMT) |
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Kocherlakota loose money and deflation | Angry Bear [#]
Kocherlakota asserts that expansionary monetary policy will eventually cause deflation. This is very odd. My honest opinion is that he wants to argue for a higher target federal funds rate and he's decided to present every argument that ...
Angry Bear (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:40:00 GMT) |
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Deflation Delusion Continues as Economies Trend Towards High ... [#]
Deflation Delusion Continues as Economies Trend Towards High Inflation :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website.
The Market Oracle (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:46:48 GMT) |
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Inflation, not deflation, Mr. Bernanke Caixin Online - MarketWatch [#]
Stimulus is the wrong medicine for solving the developed world's current problems, and too much stimulus will causes inflation and bubbles in emerging economies first, and inflation in developed economies later, writes economist Andy ...
MarketWatch Community - Comments - Jerbear (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:18:16 GMT) |
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Bernanke Presents Fed's Options and Indicates Deflation Not a ... [#]
August 27, 2010 Chairman Bernanke kicked off the annual symposium in Jackson Hole with a blueprint for the future course of monetary policy. In his.
AdvisorAnalyst Views (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:46:05 GMT) |
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Free Money Finance: Talking about Deflation [#]
The following is a guest post from Squirrelers. It's a bit heavy on the economics side of personal finance, but I know many of you like to discuss those sort of topics, so I'm going with it. For those of...
Free Money Finance (Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:45:00 GMT) |
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Harry Dent Deflation and Demographics Interview September 2010 ... [#]
Exciting news for fellow deflation and demographic aficionados - tomorrow I'll be speaking with Harry Dent, author most recently of the book The Great Depression Ahead. Let me know if you have any questions you'd like me to ask Harry ...
The Contrary Investing Report (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:42:27 GMT) |
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Inflation, Not Deflation, Mr. Bernanke | The Big Picture [#]
Inflation, Not Deflation, Mr. Bernanke Andy Xie 08.16.2010 18:12 > The global economy seems to be bifurcating into the ice-cold developed economies and.
The Big Picture (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:00:23 GMT) |
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Inflation Deflation Debate Rages on: 2010 Economic Collapse | Ron ... [#]
This debate over inflation or deflation interests me. My guess is that this period of deflation continues until we have a massive reset that is triggered by an event or a series of events that leads to a rapid stampede out of the dollar ...
Ron Paul 2012 | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul (Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:05:01 GMT) |
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Daily Digest 9/2 – Bernanke And Deflation, Economists Question ... [#]
Daily Digest 9/2 – Bernanke And Deflation, Economists Question … Posted by DailyDigest - 02/09/10 at 02:09 pm. This entry was posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 2:40 pm and is filed under Stock Market News. ...
Stock Capitalist (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:40:29 GMT) |
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The Deflation Debate | Emac's Stock Watch [#]
Deflation is a downward spiral of falling wages and prices and a consensus that declines will persist. And because overregulation is effectively deflationary, any such downturn can be aggravated by government rules and regulations ...
Emac's Stock Watch (Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:00:28 GMT) |
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Deflation derivatives attract Canadian investors | FINCAD News [#]
Of all the risks present in the current financial system, deflation is the one that scares many investors and policymakers the most. In a sustained period of.
FINCAD News (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:52:12 GMT) |
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How to Hedge Both Inflation and Deflation - CBS MoneyWatch.com [#]
This article is part of a package on concerns about inflation and deflation. To read the other article, see Inflation or Deflation: Which Economic Ris.
Wise Investing Blog RSS | MoneyWatch (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:10:25 GMT) |
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Trade Dollar ETF UUP to Profit From Deflation | InvestorPlace [#]
Today, deflation is coming to the forefront thanks to bond market activity and what the New York Times had to say about it this weekend. The mood of both the Street and among individual investors often mimics the coverage that's given ...
InvestorPlace (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:59:04 GMT) |
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“There Is No Deflation Threat In Europe” – Jean Claude Trichet ... [#]
He's at it again. Last year he was busily trying to worry us all that inflation was set to get completely out of hand among the 16 countries who make up the eurozone. Now the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, ...
A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros (Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:11:14 GMT) |
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Stephen Williamson: New Monetarist Economics: More on Deflation Traps [#]
It doesn't matter whether Fisher eqn holds in short run, what needs for a deflation trap is a line with slope higher than the Taylor's rule. Unfortunately it is not the analysis of our Nobel prize winner. Maybe he has some brand new ...
Stephen Williamson: New Monetarist Economics (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:13:00 GMT) |
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Stephen Williamson: New Monetarist Economics: Deflation Traps [#]
Then he qualifies it ("...possibly goes to actual deflation"). Is that high probability or low probability? Can you put a point estimate on that, with a confidence interval? Why do you get trapped? If Krugman knows, he should lay this ...
Stephen Williamson: New Monetarist Economics (Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:58:00 GMT) |
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Understanding the Subject of Deflation « multimediadev.net [#]
It's a well known fact - most of us like to get a good deal. We basically think it's great when the cost drops on the most popular food (think about the dollar menu at your local fast-food drive through) or we have a much better product ...
multimediadev.net (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:45:25 GMT) |
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Lifting the Lid on More Deflation Lies - Money Morning Australia ... [#]
We'll stay on the theme of Japan for today. And we may even stay on a similar subject for tomorrow after we heard this quote, All the signs look like we're [the US] going to follow the Japanese scenario. But more on that – perhaps.
ASXnewbie.com | News Views and Reviews | ASX Stocks Shares CFD Options Forex Commodities Trading Investing (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:53:01 GMT) |
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Harry Dent, The Great Depression Ahead Author – Exclusive ... [#]
This morning, I had the fortunate opportunity to speak with demographic trend expert and economic researcher Harry S. Dent. It was a great conversation and we covered a lot of topics, including the demographic outlook in America, ...
The Contrary Investing Report (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:09:29 GMT) |
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Secondary Sources: Mortgage Funding, Japanese Deflation, Celebrity ... [#]
A roundup of economic news from around the Web.-- The Fannie Debate: Dean Baker says it'd be hard to beat the government-owned Fannie model "if we are interested in a cheap and efficient way to sustain the secondary mortgage market.
WSJ.com: Real Time Economics (Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:35:25 GMT) |
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Why We'll Have Deflation in Our Future | A Foreclosure Alternative [#]
This is a repost of a GREAT post that Steven Keen did on his Debt Watch blog What Bernanke Doesn't Understand about Deflation Bernanke's recent Jackson.
A Foreclosure Alternative (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:15:26 GMT) |
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Is Ben Bernanke Worried about Deflation? - The Curious Capitalist ... [#]
Bernanke made a speech this morning to other central bankers, economists and journalists at an annual forum in Jackson Hole. There were a number of key phrases Fed watchers were expecting to hear and, hopefully, not hear.
The Curious Capitalist (Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:10:12 GMT) |
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Bang-Bang: Kocherlakota on Deflation « Modeled Behavior [#]
With money and deflation what you'd have to be suggesting is that as soon as people realized that the Fed was committed to this path, prices on everything, not just stocks and bonds but everything, instantly jumped sky high. ...
Modeled Behavior (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:12:56 GMT) |
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NABE Economists Fear Deflation in the Near Term, Inflation in the ... [#]
The National Association for Business Economics released its semiannual Economic Policy Survey Sunday, and nearly 60% of respondents said they support the Fed's monetary policies. But only 39% feel the administration's fiscal stance is ...
DailyFinance (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:50:00 GMT) |
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Dividend-Yield Signal Screams Deflation Or Back-Up-The-Truck ... [#]
Right now, stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Tokyo Nikkei and London FTSE-100 offer a bigger dividend-yield than what you'll make in interest from local government bonds. "That's pretty rare, and in general has been quite a ...
Great Speculations (Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:18:00 GMT) |
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Best Investments During Deflation ~ market folly [#]
Today we're laying a loose framework for the best investments during deflation. Why? Because deflationary signals have reared their ugly head as of late. Not to mention, many prominent investment managers have voiced their concern about ...
market folly (Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:00:00 GMT) |
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Inflation and Deflation of Hawaiian Volcanoes « Pacific Island ... [#]
Visitors to Hawaii are often surprised to learn that the volcanoes actually inflate and deflate depending on the influence of magma in the mountains' interiors. The following explanation of this fascinating geologic feature comes from ...
Pacific Island National Parks (Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:00:57 GMT) |
