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The Sources Of Deflation Are Not A Mystery. Deflation Is In Almost All Cases A Side Effect Of A Collapse Of Aggregate Demand.. A Drop In Spending So Severe That Producers Must Cut Prices On An Ongoing Basis In Order To Find Buyers.

The Risk Exists That, With Aggregate Demand Exhibiting Considerable Momentum, Output Could Overshoot Its Sustainable Path, Leading Ultimately In The Absence Of Countervailing Monetary Policy Action To Further Upward Pressure On Inflation.

I And Others Were Mistaken Early On In Saying That The Subprime Crisis Would Be Contained. The Causal Relationship Between The Housing Problem And The Broad Financial System Was Very Complex And Difficult To Predict.

Like Gold, U.s. Dollars Have Value Only To The Extent That They Are Strictly Limited In Supply. But The U.s. Government Has A Technology, Called A Printing Press (or, Today, Its Electronic Equivalent), That Allows It To Produce As Many U.s. Dollars As It Wishes At Essentially No Cost. By Increasing The Number Of U.s. Dollars In Circulation, Or Even By Credibly Threatening To Do So, The U.s. Government Can Also Reduce The Value Of A Dollar In Terms Of Goods And Services, Which Is Equivalent To Raising The Prices In Dollars Of Those Goods And Services.