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Whitney Baker on Why "Immaculate Disinflation" is an Illusion | #453

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The Biggest Lies in Economics Are Asset Deflationary and Consumption Inflationaries, Right?

An aging population is deflationary and consumption inflationary, says David Frum. In Japan in 1998, when a working age population started to contract, the banking system was forced to recognize all of the bad assets and loans that had built up during the Japanese bubble. The concept of reporting an NPL ratio didn't exist in Japan until 1998. And when that happened, that was a deflationary debt bust, right? It happened at the same time the population started tocontract.

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