https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/197.aspxPolitics, disasters, war and peace.enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/257612.aspxSat, 03 Oct 2009 06:56:08 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:257612Chris0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/257612.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=197&PostID=257612<p>Normally I wouldn&#39;t bother destroying everybody&#39;s brain cells on here with this, but I just figured we could all use a laugh.</p> <p>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=aaqA40k28UJY</p> <p>About deflation:</p> <p>&quot;Such a spiral led to Japan&rsquo;s &ldquo;lost decade&rdquo; of slow economic <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=JGDYCGDP%3AIND">growth</a> in the 1990s. A more vicious version in the U.S. helped create the Great Depression six decades earlier. Bond investors are forecasting retreating consumer prices, as shown by the yield they demand to hold a one-year bond versus a similar inflation-protected bond.&quot;</p> <p>Falling consumer prices has wreaked havoc on the world!&nbsp; What a joke.&nbsp; The funniest part is that the clown writing this article doesn&#39;t even say that the lost decade and Great Depression featured falling prices, but that they created such depressions.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>