Sentence examples for steady deflation from inspiring English sources

And meanwhile the combination of high public and private debts and steady deflation is making Japan vulnerable not just to a debilitating illness, as for the past decade, but to a cardiac arrest.Like many political leaders, Mr Koizumi has proved to be much braver in his foreign policy than at home.

Ideally this would be done on a schedule that causes slow, steady deflation in the currency over time.

Are Rome, Paris, Madrid, and Lisbon working themselves ragged to respect the 3percentt deficit-to-GDP ratio required of EU members, and seeking wiggle room in their public expenditures amid steady deflation?

But there's been a steady time deflation: first there was the 50-minute hour and now we have 45-minute "hours".

Sure enough, they find a steady correlation between deflation and demography, but just the opposite of what is commonly assumed.

Its annual budget deficits run at 8% of GDP, its public debt will reach 157% of GDP this fiscal year, and a steady stream of deflation numbers suggests that the rot will become ever less manageable.

Consumer-price deflation held steady at 0.4% in the year to April.

He wrote in his blog: "Zero inflation, or even a slow, steady, and widely expected deflation, are in fact much better in the long run.

Mixed messages in economic data and corporate reports, combined with heightened uncertainty about the midterm elections, have led to forecasts of both soaring and plunging stock prices, resurgent inflation and insidious deflation, and slow but steady economic growth and a double-dip recession.

The board said Japan should continue its steady recovery and bring an end to deflation.

He has measured the risks from volatility in the market and concludes that "no efficient frontier exists out to 20 years" to be able to predict that the returns on stocks adjusted for volatility and risk, can turn in steady positive returns in a period of deflation.