Deflation in example sentence

But deflation would make people want to hold onto their money, and a decrease in consumer spending would reduce business profits, leading to more unemployment and a further decrease in spending, causing the economy to keep shrinking.

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On the other hand, if the money supply remains the same, while more goods and services are produced, each dollar's value would increase in a process known as deflation.

In terms of price performance, that's a 40 to 50 percent deflation rate.

We had deflation during the Depression, but that was collapse of the money supply, collapse of consumer confidence, a completely different phenomena.

If you have 50 percent deflation, people may increase their volume 30, 40 percent, but they won't keep up with it."

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