Deflation: Why Falling Prices Are Bad

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The ticket's questions separate deflation from disinflation with a year-over-year CPI test, ask for Irving Fisher's 1933 debt-deflation mechanism in one line, and probe why officials dread deflation far more than ordinary inflation. The rubric wants a reason tied to the zero lower bound.

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