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Category Archives: deflation
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Quantitative Easing Explained (by cartoon bears)
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- deflation, quantitative easing
Posted November 18th, 2010
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Does deflation always result in a low and flat yield curve?
- Topics
- deflation, quantitative easing
Posted September 25th, 2009
We’ve had a huge rally in risky assets since we wrote a comment about Turning Japanese almost a year ago, and while diminished, the risk of a ‘lost decade’ is still very real. I thought it would be worth another…
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Back in April, Mike wrote about the US entering deflation for the first time in half a century, noting a number of other countries that were also in deflation (see here). Since then, we’ve seen several more follow – the…
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Most of the press coverage of the Bank of England’s inflation report centred around Mervyn King’s comments that the UK was in a ‘deep recession’. That’s hardly controversial any more – for me, more interesting was the fan chart depicting…
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Looking at the broad categories of the UK’s RPI numbers here’s a brief breakdown of where the inflationary – and indeed deflationary – pressures are occuring. The most recent inflation number we have is for November. The headline RPI was…










