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She landed safely, but the parade has taken deflation very seriously since.

He cites the example of Japan and China where huge debt issuance caused monetary deflation to which their central banks responded by allowing their currencies to devalue.

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First, CPUs are increasingly being replaced by GPUs to supplement the industry’s need for compute cost deflation.

Persistent deflation has weighed on nominal gross domestic product growth, dragging on corporate profits and wage growth, MS said.

It may seem like a good idea to have cheaper goods, but deflation can force firms out of business and drag on growth overall.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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