Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.' — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing. — William McChesney Martin Copy Share Image
To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it. — Carlos Ghosn Copy Share Image
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Every serious deflation I've looked at is preceded by an asset bubble, and then it bursts. — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
I always think of the economy as going down a pretty broad road that has mud on either side - for inflation… — John Manley Copy Share Image
A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Mario Draghi became the first major central banker to cut a key interest rate below zero as he unveiled a series of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close… — Athanasios Orphanides Copy Share Image
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The United States and Europe are in a state of debt deflation, where people and businesses have to pay banks instead of… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“During energy deflation, we must first re-evaluate our values, motivations, and capacities because this helps us adopt a more grounded, realistic approach… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
As a whole, [changing] is deflation force that is being underestimated. Whether each person thinks of it in the context of the… — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“It is one thing when prices drift downward over time due to innovation, scalability or other efficiencies. This might be considered “good”… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
The Fed is pushing a variety of workarounds that would inject trillions in new money into the economy while bypassing the banking… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Falling consumer prices is what enriches people (deflation of asset prices can ruin them, but that is because they are using asset… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The current U.S. and Eurozone depression isn't because of China. It's because of domestic debt deflation. Commodity prices and consumer spending are… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime. — Greg Mankiw Copy Share Image
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively, — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
More and more money is being extracted from of the production and consumption economy to pay the FIRE sector. That's what causes… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image