"Deflation and secular stagnation are the risks of…" — Lawrence Summers

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• The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse… — Ben Bernanke
• This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively, — Christine Lagarde
• Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more… — Gavyn Davies
• Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose… — John Mellencamp
• With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process… — Catherine Austin Fitts
• For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of… — Evan Davis
• Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of… — Anna Godbersen
• However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central… — Toshihiko Fukui
• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it. — Carlos Ghosn
• The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. — Jack Kemp
• If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by… — Thomas Jefferson

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