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Guest Post: The Case Against Deflation | Zero Hedge

Japan was also in the grip of Keynesians and they stimulated like crazy but they still got deflation over decades, what makes you think it will work here when personal and business credit is not expanding…can the gov really … [...]

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 … [...]

Haruhiko Kuroda intends to turn a mild deflation into 2% inflation …

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda wants to finally eliminate the scourge of deflation . Mr Kuroda intends to achieve a new 2% inflation target handed down by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in this … [...]

Markets: Bank of Japan makes aggressive move to end deflation

Irish/Ireland Business News, Internationa, Global, World, European Union, Financial Information – Irish Finance and Business Portal – providing Irish, European and global market information including mortgages, pensions, … [...]

Abeconomics, deflation and the Japan conundrum | Gestaltz

A slight change in focus can produce a profoundly different understanding https://twitter.com/gestaltz (by George [...]

In Japan It's "Whatever(er) It Takes" | Zero Hedge

There hasn't been deflation in terms of the broadest and most relevant basket of goods in Japan since their markets were Bernank'd (before Bernanke was a scourge on the face of the globe) beginning in the early [...]

AIC 2013 Replay: Address: Japan’s economy — can it be rescued and revived by ‘Abenomics’?

Yasuhisa Shiozaki, a senior policy maker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, makes the case for the new brand of economics being espoused by [...]

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 … [...]

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 [...]

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 … [...]