So debts will be kept on the books and the economy will slowly be strangled
by debt deflation.
So in order to save bondholders and banks from losing, the economy would be wrecked
by debt deflation.
Not exact matches
The sharp jump in
debt yields in tandem was mirrored
by a rally in commodity prices, which suggests that investors are becoming less worried about the risks of
deflation.
September 2003 (188 kb PDF file): Research summaries on sovereign bonds and public
debt management and on international trade; country study: Sweden; summaries of new study on
deflation and recent book: Sweden's Welfare State; contents of latest issue of IMF Staff Papers; visiting scholars at the IMF; titles of recent IMF working papers; list of external publications
by IMF staff.
In all these cases the effect of
debt deflation extracting interest is not only on spending — and hence on current prices — but on the economy's long - term ability to produce,
by eating into natural resources and the environment as well as society's manmade capital stock.
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All of these economies are shrinking
by what's called
debt deflation.
Unfortunately, Mr. Krugman's failure to see today's economic problem as one of
debt deflation reflects his failure (suffered
by most economists, to be sure) to recognize the need for
debt writedowns, for restructuring the banking and financial system, and for shifting taxes off labor back onto property, economic rent and asset - price («capital») gains.
The effects have been displaced onto public
debt, made worse
by near
deflation across the South.
The result is a double - crisis: austerity stemming from
debt deflation, while public health, communications, information technology, transportation and other basic infrastructure are privatized
by corporate monopolies that raise prices charged to labor and industry.
But there also was concern that the Syriza leaders did not begin immediately upon their January election victory to educate voters on what actually is at issue: why remaining subject to the junk - economics dictates
by the IMF and ECB will make the economy subject to chronic
debt deflation.
'' — Phase 4: Instability after 1929 caused
by deflation of assets from overpriced levels and exacerbated
by excessive
debt levels, leading to depression of economic activity.
For
deflation to seriously happen, not only the current extreme credit expansion
by the central banks and states (through «quantitative easing», stimulus packages, monetising and then spending national
debt etc.) but also the money that was released into the economy PRIOR to the collapse would have to be «mopped up» again.
Trying to save it
by keeping the
debts in place — and letting Wall Street banks «work their way out of
debt» at the U.S. economy's expense — threatens to lock the economy in a chronic
debt deflation and depression.
Asset - price inflation fueled
by the Federal Reserve — is giving way to
debt deflation.
John Major restored low inflation and falling unemployment
by combining another monetary
deflation with an expansionary monetary policy that doubled the national
debt, as Reagan had done.
And,
by a full market cycle, I mean a period of time long enough to include a major
debt deflation, like the 30s and now.
The bond rally and forex drop in value have been driven
by fears of
deflation and speculation that the European Central Bank will need to continue, if not increase, the purchasing of
debt to stimulate the region's economy.
I very much doubt that in September 2008, had financial assets been funded predominately
by equity instead of
debt, that the
deflation of asset prices would have fostered a default contagion much beyond that of the dotcom boom.
So long as the banking /
debt complex is not threatened, the worst you get is something like the
deflation of the dot - com bubble, and at present, I don't see what it threatened
by that aside from cryptocurrencies and the short volatility trade.