Deflation: Why Falling Prices Are Bad

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The U.S. price trough falls in 1932 and Japan's in 2009, FDR's 1933 exit from the gold standard gets credited with ending the American spiral, and Irving Fisher's debt-deflation math explains why the cycle feeds on itself.

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