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Commenter Zack sent the next Paul Krugman links too quotes, which deserve advertisement from the comments section.

"But deflation is a huge risk — too getting out of a deflationary trap is very, rattling hard. We genuinely are flirting amongst disaster."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/about-that-deflation-risk/

"So we're actually heading into Japanese-style deflation territory"
 http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/smells-like-deflation/

 "So order me why nosotros aren’t looking at a rattling large adventure of getting into a deflationary trap, inwards which falling prices brand consumers too businesses fifty-fifty less willing to spend." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/risks-of-deflation-wonkish-but-important/

 "But the adventure that America volition plough into Japan — that we’ll human face upwardly years of deflation too stagnation — seems, if anything, to locomote rising."
https://cococalamanco.blogspot.com//search?q=04/about-that-deflation-risk/" target="_blank">But deflation is a huge risk — too getting out of a deflationary trap is very, rattling hard. We genuinely are flirting amongst disaster."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/about-that-deflation-risk/

"So we're actually heading into Japanese-style deflation territory"
 http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/smells-like-deflation/

 "So order me why nosotros aren’t looking at a rattling large adventure of getting into a deflationary trap, inwards which falling prices brand consumers too businesses fifty-fifty less willing to spend." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/risks-of-deflation-wonkish-but-important/

 "But deflation is a huge risk — too getting out of a deflationary trap is very, rattling hard. We genuinely are flirting amongst disaster."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/about-that-deflation-risk/

"So we're actually heading into Japanese-style deflation territory"
 http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/smells-like-deflation/

 "So order me why nosotros aren’t looking at a rattling large adventure of getting into a deflationary trap, inwards which falling prices brand consumers too businesses fifty-fifty less willing to spend." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/risks-of-deflation-wonkish-but-important/

 "Worst of all is the possibility that the economic scheme will, equally it did inwards the ’30s, terminate upwardly stuck inwards a prolonged deflationary trap."
https://cococalamanco.blogspot.com//search?q=04/about-that-deflation-risk/" target="_blank">But deflation is a huge risk — too getting out of a deflationary trap is very, rattling hard. We genuinely are flirting amongst disaster."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/about-that-deflation-risk/

"So we're actually heading into Japanese-style deflation territory"
 http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/smells-like-deflation/

 "So order me why nosotros aren’t looking at a rattling large adventure of getting into a deflationary trap, inwards which falling prices brand consumers too businesses fifty-fifty less willing to spend." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/risks-of-deflation-wonkish-but-important/

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But I don't write endless posts excoriating "inflationistas" for the lack of their largely mischaracterized inflation forecasts, crowing almost how I'm e'er correct almost everything,  damning others for failing to larn from evidence, too Bulverizing (l
But deflation is a huge risk — too getting out of a deflationary trap is very, rattling hard. We genuinely are flirting amongst disaster."
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/about-that-deflation-risk/

"So we're actually heading into Japanese-style deflation territory"
 http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/smells-like-deflation/

 "So order me why nosotros aren’t looking at a rattling large adventure of getting into a deflationary trap, inwards which falling prices brand consumers too businesses fifty-fifty less willing to spend." http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/risks-of-deflation-wonkish-but-important/

 "here too, a bully word) almost their evil motives. So a few look-in-the-mirror-why-don't-you quotes are appropriate.  I've been also lazy to facial expression upwardly these quotes, too thus I give thank y'all Zack for doing it.

This also volition affair Mon -- I convey a slice coming out that mentions the failure of the widespread "deflationary spiral" forecast. These quotes offering a dainty documentation.

By the way, yes, at the fourth dimension I warned of the adventure of inflation, too that didn't plough over off either. I was quite clear it was a risk non a forecast. California has a adventure of earthquakes. And the failure to meet ane inwards 6 years does non evidence geologists are all mendacious morons. There are precedents for the inflation risk. Reinhart too Rogoff pointed to quite a few cases inwards which later on a "quiet period," banking crises are followed past times sovereign debt crises or defaults.

As I meet it, that adventure remains, though it has declined a lot. The argue it declined is that our government, too the European governments, kept their eyes on long-term budget issues. Our Administration has from the firstly e'er promised long-term budget repair, despite Keynesian theory that says if y'all desire to stimulate, y'all proceed tranquillity almost futurity taxes or spending reductions. No signal inwards waking upwardly the Ricardian genie. You mightiness complain the Administration wasn't serious enough, but they were e'er proverb at that topographic point would locomote a long term plan, too bond markets plainly bought it. Many inwards Congress also convey had their eyes on long-term budgets, too long-term financial solvency depends if anything to a greater extent than on Congress than on this Administration.

The Europeans convey gone through several rounds of "austerity," despite Keynesian too specially Krugmanian excoriation. (True, they started amongst counterproductive high-marginal-tax austerity, but Europe seems chop-chop to convey learned that less spending too structural reform are a improve path.) They came darn close. If Italia too Kingdom of Spain had defaulted, nosotros would probable locomote having a dissimilar conversation today.

Doing so, our too Europe's governments persuaded bond markets that the currency too debt are rubber -- mayhap fifty-fifty also rubber - -and avoided, for now, the sovereign debt fate Reinhart too Rogoff warned about.  If I erred inwards overestimating the inflationary risk, I erred inwards underestimating the financial sobriety of all our governments, too I overestimated the extent to which they believed the Keynesian advice to ignore, default, devalue, or inflate away debt. That's why no earthquake inwards 6 years hasn't changed all that much my views on the "model," inwards this illustration of underlying causes of inflation.

On the "spiral" or "vortex." Perhaps at that topographic point are a few true-blue Keynesians reading who tin give the axe assist me out. I empathise the thought that deflation leads to high existent rates leads to lower bespeak leads to lower output leads to to a greater extent than deflation. ("Understand" ≠ "Agree".) I don't meet how the model ever predicts this to end. Is at that topographic point some clear "and it bottoms out when x y z?" In my model, it bottoms out when y'all hitting the summit of the acquaint value Laffer curve, too futurity taxes cannot hope to pay dorsum the deflationary growth inwards the existent value of the debt.  But I don't know where it ends inwards the criterion old-Keynesian model. Positive eigenvalues are positive eigenvalues. Maybe some wealth lawsuit of regime bonds (Another agency to lay "my model")? But why doesn't that halt the spiral inwards the firstly place? Is it correct to characterize the model's prediction equally an endless spiral to zero? If non why not?

Update: Commenter JZ sends the next link, too it's solely fair to include it.

" ... back when the crisis started, I did await to meet deflation, Japanese style, if it went on for an extended period. I was incorrect ... "
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/why-dont-we-have-deflation

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