Today, Europe has been hit again by a massive deflationary shock.

Policy as a whole over the entire euro zone is too deflationary.

The deflationary debt trap is threatening to destroy a still incomplete political union.

First, there was no automatic deflationary pressure following from some alleged peculiarity of the adjustment mechanism. The question of overall deflationary or inflationary impact depended (and still depends) on the total quantity of money.

Following the 1929 stock market crash, Europe was hit by a massive deflationary shock.

With China retaining its under valued currency policy, dollar depreciation can aggravate global deflationary forces.

Deflationary pressures eased in Japan but firm evidence that deflation has ended is still awaited.

One major concern relates to the destabilizing and deflationary feedbacks among trade, debt and finance.

First, there was no automatic deflationary pressure following from some alleged peculiarity of the adjustment mechanism.

It simply reflects the recessionary (or deflationary) force of weak global demand hanging over the world economy.

The way out of a deflationary trap is to first induce inflation and then to reduce it.

Abe is right about one thing Japan needs to get out of its no growth and deflationary trap.

Thus, deflationary pressure will to some extent result in downward quantity adjustments, which will deepen the real crisis.

The question of overall deflationary or inflationary impact depended (and still depends) on the total quantity of money.

As such, the PBoC will need to maintain counter cyclical policies in order to avoid a deflationary spiral.

Further falls in commodity prices already down 30 from their summer peak will add to these deflationary pressures.

In these circumstances, domestic deflationary policies will only further slow growth and are helpless to stem imported inflation.

The principle behind this is that collective insurance would be cheaper, and therefore less deflationary, than self insurance.

Abe is right about one thing Japan needs to get out of its no growth and deflationary trap.

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Faced with depressed private investment and consumption, rising fiscal deficits can play a useful role, offsetting the deflationary effects.

Revaluation would accelerate this trend.

This trend must be reversed.

There is clearly a trend.

Part of a regional trend

That trend must be reversed.

That trend should be encouraged.

This is a welcome trend.

That is why Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda should respond accordingly if the tax increase has a deflationary impact.

Unfortunately, that trend may be reversing.

Reversing this trend demands urgent action.

The current trend is toward decentralization.

This trend seems to have continued.

By rewarding good behavior, the fiscal compact would no longer constitute a deflationary debt trap, and the outlook would radically improve.

This rule normally ensures a modicum of coherence and avoids overreactions in exchange rates, but it is insufficient in deflationary times.

Seventh, monetization of fiscal deficits is not inflationary in the short run, whereas slack product and labor markets imply massive deflationary forces.

Of course, Japan s escape from its 15 year deflationary trap and two decades of economic stagnation would be good for the world.

This trend is not hard to understand.

That trend now appears to be waning.

The financial crisis may slow this trend.

Subsequently, the long term downward trend resumed.

Some countries have bucked the global trend.

The statements in question mark that trend.

She highlighted some of the questions to which this emerging trend gave rise. Would the trend become more pronounced in the future?

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