That index is now roughly 10 per cent above its mid-2014 highs — thereby completely erasing the impact
from the global deflation sell - off that occurred three years ago.
Not exact matches
According to new research on the role of the U.S. dollar
from Harvard, cited by Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, the U.S. economy is fairly insulated
from foreign inflation /
deflation pressures via exchange rates, implying that policymakers should be less worried about
global deflation pressures.
Since 2001 the silver and gold markets have gone up substantially as a reaction to the 20 year precious metals bear market
from 1980 — 2000, massive increases in military spending, weakening
global economies that REQUIRE Quantitative Easing to avoid
deflation, the rise of competing currencies that weaken the dollar's trading status, excessive debts in Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and so much more.
The drivers of this low growth environment stem
from four secular headwinds — aging demographics, depressed productivity, high
global debt levels and incessant
deflation deriving
from globalization.
His ground breaking research on complex systems modelling of debt -
deflation was awarded the eminent Revere Award
from the Real World Economics Review, describing Keen as the economist «who first and most clearly anticipated and gave public warning of the
Global Financial Collapse and whose work is most likely to prevent another GFC in the future».
The key message
from escalating trade tensions is that one of the key drivers of
global deflation is now going into reverse.
But no sooner had China's industrial base started to show some positive effects
from the pickup in
global commodity prices — which has allowed its factories to push through some price increases after many years of producer price
deflation — than several of the industrial materials most reliant on Chinese demand started to come under pressure during April.
On longer time scales, adjustments to the
global circulation over the last 7,000 years have, during wetter times, reduced
deflation from the depression to zero.