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The United States government is anticipating deflation from the economic crisis. Deflation can destabilize the economy and destroy business and consumer confidence. Corporations are seen to be greatly affected by deflation.

Looming Specter: Optimism Grows but Deflation Fears Remain Major Banks may be healthier than originally feared and hopes may be rising that the economy has bottomed out, but there is [...]

When we launched The Grocer 33 survey in 1997, we found that our basket of commonly-bought items cost an average of 36.51 [pounds sterling]. Today, as you will have read [...]

The latest emergency package to deal with the deflation problem of the Japanese economy is evaluated. The major countermeasures to deflation include increasing the stock prices to help the banks holding huge amounts of stock for earning profits, and helping the banks to deal with their bad loans, which amount to $270 billion. These financial measures need to be supplemented with reforms to clean up the banking sector.

Concerns about accelerating inflation are misplaced. Low unemployment and global inventories are not sufficient threats to overcome readily available capital and the deflationary pressures of technology growth. If inflation remains low, a bull market, and mergers and acquisitions will continue.