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The way you create deflation is you create an asset bubble.
Stanley Druckenmiller /
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Create
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Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
Robert Kiyosaki / Investor
Deflation
Easier
Inflation
Cure
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Accepting
Deflation
Faces
People
Reacting
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You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime.
Greg Mankiw / Author
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If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.
Christine Lagarde / Lawyer
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Genies
Inflation
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See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.
Jean Cocteau / Poet
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Disappointment
Fortune
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Every serious deflation I've looked at is preceded by an asset bubble, and then it bursts.
Stanley Druckenmiller /
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Asset
Bubble
Bursts
Looked
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp / Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
Deflation
Inflation
Opposites
Real
Serious
Opposite
Borrower
Equally
Real Problem
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Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
John Mellencamp / Singer-Songwriter
Depression
Future
Truth
Care
Deflation
Don't Care
First Time
Great Depression
Sky
Unemployment
Time Future Great
Since
First
Fault
Whose
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Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.
Anna Godbersen / Writer
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Race
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In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.
Robert Kiyosaki / Investor
Circulation
Deflation
Dollars
Flip
Inflation
Simplest
Occurs
Too Much Money
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Sector-specific price declines, uncomfortable as they may be for producers in that sector, are generally not a problem for the economy as a whole and do not constitute deflation.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
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Uncomfortable
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Sector
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However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.
Toshihiko Fukui /
Zero
Avert
Deflation
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Perception
Policy
Should
Spite
Bank
Below
Bound
Central
Central Bank
Interest Rates
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Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close to zero, or worse, deflation has set in.
Athanasios Orphanides /
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Considerably
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Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Balance Sheets
Corporate
Deflation
Financial System
Sheets
Banks
Burdened
Loans
Shaky
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Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
Gavyn Davies / Reporter
Dear
Deflation
Inflation
Needs
Orthodoxy
Serious
Held
Indeed
Rarely
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And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.
Kevin Brady / U.s. Representative
Jobs
America
Deflation
Focus
Guarding
Inflation
Job Growth
Purchasing
Purchasing Power
Solid Foundation
Creates
Dollar
Effect
Solid
Preserving
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The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second, third, and fourth homes. This is paper-deflation, zombie-deflation, and has nothing to do with the real economy.
Max Keiser / Broadcaster
Deflation
Fourth
Ruling
Wall
Homes
Political Class
Third
Wall Street
Zombies
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For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.
Evan Davis / Economist
China
Deflation
Europe
World
Years
American Consumers
Futures
Grown
Recession
Resort
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