Japan has had persistent mild deflation for most of the last decade. Along with the deflation has been over a decade of slow to no growth. As we all know, prime minister Shinzo Abe and new Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko … [...]
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Are the markets signaling deflation ahead? Japan is trying its high-risk experiment to inflate. While the efforts seem to be working initially with the yen collapsing and Japanese equity markets soaring, there is growing concern … [...] JAPAN's public is finally getting the message that the central bank is determined to beat deflation . The weekend after Haruhiko Kuroda, the Bank of Japan's new governor, announced radical monetary-easing measures, … [...] Yen appreciation has been aggravating Japan's chronic deflation , so some monetary easing is called for. However, for Japan , which did not experience a financial crisis of its own this time around, aggressive monetary easing … [...] That's the case in deflationary Japan : people have postponed spending because they expect things to cost less in future. Abe's big bet is that boosting demand will not only end deflation, but lift the supply side of the economy … [...] |
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Preparedness | Michael Ashton | Safehaven.com
St. Louis Federal Reserve President Bullard today told an audience at the Hyman Minsky Conference in New York that it is “too early” to worry about deflation . That statement must hit most readers of this column as hysterically … [...]