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Comment by dnautics

Surely you're kidding, right? If inflation didn't have a positive feedback loop we wouldn't have the hockey stick exponential devaluation as seen in: Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe, Brazil, etc...

> Japan has had serious struggles fighting off deflation

But the CPI in Japan hasn't gone down, if anything it's gone up more years than it's gone down. Moreover, in what way is Japan terrible? Due to less inflation, there's less income inequality. Maybe deflation isn't bad.

parent dnautics 5 years ago

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