The reduction of such monetary inflation generally results in a slowdown and the temptation to reflate.
If nothing else, it should publicly revive discussion of alternative plans to reflate the economy.
Their efforts to reflate the world economy may have avoided a 1930s-style depression so far.
To reflate its sick economy, the Bank of Japan needs to print massive quantities of money.
He is not a proponent of harrying Berlin to reflate to boost domestic consumption.
Back in the mid-1980s, the country chose to reflate rather than deflate its asset bubbles.
Meanwhile, the Fed's rock-bottom interest rates and its QE policies are both intended to reflate the housing market.
Oil production may increase in 2006, and start to reflate that missing cushion.
Some advocate even more radical steps to reflate the economy, such as charging banks to deposit money at the central bank.
Salomon's Raha says a boost in exports to Asia should improve China's balance of payments and even help to reflate the economy.
Over the past four years, both the Obama administration and the Fed have been frustrated by their inability to reflate housing prices.
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That suggests the authorities should take drastic steps to reflate the economy, jolting it out of its stupor and weakening the currency.
No wonder American policymakers are urging Japan and Europe to reflate.
Now, many recognise that it is helping their economy to reflate.
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Earlier in the 1990s Japan was able to use fiscal packages to reflate its economy because bond markets were pretty strong and bond yields kept falling.
Daim Zainuddin, Malaysia's economic czar, also has some heavy-handed moves to explain: Kuala Lumpur's currency restrictions which shield its ringgit from attack as it tries to reflate the economy.
The bailouts, federal deficit spending, and quantitative easing programs that were enacted to attempt to reflate asset prices and spark the job market will be viewed by historians as failures.
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The effort to "reflate" the economy has pushed share prices sharply higher, while the value of Japan's currency has fallen by 25 percent against the U.S. dollar since late last year.
Mahathir, of course, did not bother to wait for a third quarter of minus-5% growth before imposing currency curbs, which allow him, at least temporarily, to reflate the economy without collapsing the ringgit.
The Federal Reserve has maintained a super-easy monetary policy in the name of reducing the jobless rate and to reflate the housing market, but this has contributed to higher food and energy prices and thus reduced real income gains.
Everyone expects Shinzo Abe to spend yet more money the government doesn't have, and to pressure the Bank of Japan into spending trillions more as well - in a desperate bid to push up prices and finally reflate the economy.
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