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...mill economist would define deflation as the loss of money supply and credit in the markets. Simply stated, the value of money erodes as prices drop sharply. The value of labor and goods and services goes into free fall...
...which sits just on the other side of a rapidly deepening global recession. Deflation could conceivably make economic matters worse by enticing businesses and consumers to delay purchases based on hopes that prices for goods and services will keep falling. But, there is a potential benefit to a sharp drop in the value of almost everything...
...Even that's not enough to excite investors. On the first trading day of 2009, buyers lifted the Nikkei to above the 9000 level for the first time in two months. The boost, however, was short-lived, and the Nikkei continued to drop, after losing 42% in 2008. Now hovering just above 8200, the index is about one-fifth of what it was in 1989 at the peak of Japan's stock-market bubble. (See pictures of scared traders...
...took two tubes, squeezed some paint from each of them and then he poured some yellow liquid into the whole mess. Wondering, I asked him what the yellow stuff was. 'That's egg yolk,' he replied. 'Have you ever noticed that if you drop an egg and don't clean it up immediately it sticks and you can't get it off? It does the same thing in pictures. Also if you use yolk the picture will not fade like ordinary watercolors.' 'Doesn't it affect the color of the paint...
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