There are presently mixed views on whether inflation or deflation will be the ultimate outcome.
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Since 1978, the CPI has been the go-to index to measure inflation or deflation.
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And an economy can suffer through a recession while experiencing either inflation or deflation.
Unlike Volcker, the target of Kuroda resolve to take effective action is not inflation but deflation.
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The mistake in all this has to do with a misunderstanding of inflation and deflation.
Are the criminal sectors subject to the same sad market forces: inflation, deflation, stagflation?
If you print a lot more money, you're more likely to have inflation than deflation.
As a result, central banks are now walking the economy on a very thin tightrope between inflation and deflation.
Economists, though, too often confuse normal marketplace price changes with inflation and deflation.
Inflation and deflation are monetary phenomena, yet Brown seems to want to attach to all price movements the two adjectives.
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Businesses could plan without worries about inflation or deflation, or big swings in the price of oil and other commodities.
He added the new qualification would be so rigorous "nobody could imagine there has been any grade inflation or deflation".
The point here is to understand where we are in the cycle between inflation and deflation and then to invest accordingly.
All the morning session long in Sydney, both camps (inflation or deflation) saw food commodities in a continuing bull market.
How has he managed to produce simultaneous inflation and deflation, when lesser Fed Chairmen have had to choose one or the other?
Generally, he looks at the impact of inflation, deflation and monetary velocity.
The mathematically inclined, inflation has three sub variables: inflation, deflation, and disinflation.
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How will the new European central bank itself avoid inflation or deflation?
Other, more traditional measures, such as the consumer price index (CPI) are merely lagging indicators of inflation or deflation that has occurred already.
Slow growth, high unemployment, capital constraints and falling prices are frequently the symptoms of both despite inflation and deflation being two different ills.
The debate over whether we are in for inflation or deflation was alive and well at the Agora Symposium in Vancouver this week.
The US dollar went through periods of inflation and deflation in this period and its value was independent of the price of gold.
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At the same time inflationary expectations appear to be quite well anchored, and so we do not project rapid declines in inflation or deflation.
Therefore the major danger has switched from inflation to deflation.
Under the leadership of Ben Bernanke, the U.S. Federal Reserve has done the seemingly impossible: It has managed to create inflation and deflation at the same time.
The biggest bears of the financial markets are concerned about different things: inflation, deflation, government debt, tax hikes, insufficient government stimulus, government intervention or lack of regulation.
While the inflation hedge argument is thrown around, gold appears to be resilient both to inflation and deflation, suggesting it is acting more as a fear gauge.
The opposite of both inflation and deflation is stable money.
He justifies the proposal on the grounds that it will cure inflation and deflation, a dubious claim John Tamny has illustrated not even Mundell himself could possibly believe.
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And for those who wish to avoid both inflation and deflation, what about a digital currency programmed to maintain stable prices, avoiding mischief by central bankers as well as the possibility of deflation?
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