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Japan attempts to slay deflation dragon — RT Business

RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global [...]

Bank of Japan Goes "All-in" on Deflation Battle – CME Group

With the Bank of Japan's announcement last week it would ramp up its deflation -fighting efforts, including doubling its monetary base through debt purchases, the central bank signaled it is “all-in” on its battle to fight deflation … [...]

EconoMonitor : Great Leap Forward » Hyman Minsky's New Book on …

Many of us got this policy from the late Hyman Minsky , who is well-known for his “financial instability hypothesis”. However, in the 1960s and 1970s he wrote nearly as much on unemployment and poverty. Indeed, he linked … [...]

Thursday's Top 10 with NZ Mint: Japan's war on deflation starts …

New Zealand's most popular independent financial site, interest.co.nz Helping you make financial [...]

New BOJ chief pledges all-out efforts to combat deflation

New Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda pledged on Thursday to launch full-scale efforts to end deflation in the country, one day after he took the reins of the central [...]

Noahpinion: How is Abenomics doing?

Since Abe's election, Japan has slipped back into deflation : FRED Graph. But inflation expectations, as measured by breakevens on the Japanese version of TIPS, are up – to 1%. So maybe we'll see this deflation turn around … [...]

Ending deflation in Japan: Waging a new war

On March 5th Seven & i Holdings, owner of the 7-Eleven convenience-store chain and Japan's largest retailer, gathered some of its employees at the Yokohama Arena baseball stadium for an announcement. It would, it said, pay 54000 of … [...]

Guest Post: Of Krugman And Minsky | Zero Hedge

In a recent column, he cited Minsky ostensibly to defend Alan Greenspan's loose monetary policies. Krugman … In endorsing Minsky's view, Krugman is coming closer to the truth. But he … Or another one: Deflation is [...]

DEFLATION: Consumer Prices In Japan Fall … – Business Insider

Japan just released consumer prices data for the month of January. CPI fell 0.3 percent year over year, more than economists' expectations of a 0.2 percent decline. Moreover, the pace of deflation accelerated from December, … [...]

Tokyo nominates ADB head Kuroda as Bank of Japan chief

But Kuroda has defended the yen's fall as a “natural correction” after hitting a record high of around 75 to the dollar in late 2011, while deriding Japan's chronic deflation as “abnormal”. Years of falling prices in Japan have … [...]