Falling prices tend to weaken demand, hurt growth and deter credit uptake—all of which can form a doom loop. Will Beijing’s ...
TOKYO -- I confess that when starting out as an economic journalist in the 1990s, I did not understand why deflation was bad. Japan's bubble economy had just burst, and prices, said to be among ...
While inflation is bad, deflation is worse. Prices increase more readily than they decrease – the same unfortunately holds true for unemployment rates. Furthermore, due to the extent to which ...
Following a decade of anemic cost-of-living adjustments, a historic increase in the U.S. money supply sent the prevailing rate of inflation soaring in the 2020s. This resulted in corresponding COLAs ...
Most people kind of turned bearish on global concerns, oil prices. So, people tend to kind of extrapolate more bad news. So ...
In a culture where the phrase “market forces” was a mantra for “no ideas,” the phrase has become mystic, and the lack of ...
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China’s real estate market has experienced a significant crash, and the country is now facing a new crisis. The debate among ...
A safety warning system went off in a Delta Air Lines regional jet, signaling a fast descent before it landed and flipped ...