Sentence examples for spirals of deflation from inspiring English sources

Irving Fisher explained that high levels of debt make economies vulnerable to downward spirals of deflation and default.

Japan toggles between spirals of deflation and yen depreciation.

Most crucially, there are signs that the policies may be breaking Japan's debilitating spiral of deflation.

Dramatic wage increases are not likely in Japan, and the recent trend of rising prices is part of Abe's strategy to reverse Japan's debilitating spiral of deflation, or falling prices.

But this time around, Mr. Greenspan appears to want more concrete verification that unemployment is about to decline below its current level of 6.1percentt and that consumer prices will not sink into a downward spiral of deflation.

To be sure, with the economy gradually finding a bottom and the rate of decline in home prices slowing, the chances of a downward spiral of deflation and economic activity have diminished.

At last week's quarterly inflation report, he said: "A temporary period of falling prices should not be mistaken for a damaging spiral of deflation".

The fear is that it will lead to a dangerous spiral of outright deflation, where businesses and consumers delay spending because they expect prices to fall further.

High debt levels make us vulnerable to a crisis – and this is when you get the self-destructive spiral of debt deflation.

It shows that the euro countries are edging towards a vicious spiral of debt deflation that could bring down the entire economic and monetary edifice.

At 4.25%, the ECB's policy rate still leaves plenty of scope for downward adjustment.Third, American policymakers, at least, have understood that public money is necessary to counter a spiral of debt-deflation.