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- noun Plural form of
deflation .
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Examples
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Sometimes the deflation reached 30%, yet the recoveries that followed six of the deflations cannot be distinguished from any other post-recession recovery.
The Fed Compounds Its Mistakes Allan H. Meltzer 2010
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(Witness for one example the United States in the last ten years, where both the business boom and recent recession have not been accompanied by any substantive inflations or deflations.)
Should Britain Join the Euro?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This led to a series of excessive expansions and debt inflations and then severe contractions and debt deflations, beginning on the periphery of the global economy before spreading to Japan and South East Asia.
Ann Pettifor: Happy Anniversary, Mr. Keynes Ann Pettifor 2011
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This led to a series of excessive expansions and debt inflations and then severe contractions and debt deflations, beginning on the periphery of the global economy before spreading to Japan and South East Asia.
Ann Pettifor: Happy Anniversary, Mr. Keynes Ann Pettifor 2011
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And men's clothes were an education in themselves according to the heroine of my latest release, Improper Relations, displaying "the various bumps, twitches, deflations and inflations on view in any drawing room, with gentlemen's fashions as they are."
Explicit, Implicit, or Somewhere in Between? - Janet Mullany Guest Post Victoria Janssen 2010
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Mr. Goltstein's next-door neighbor, Allen Hutchison, used binoculars to watch the deflations amid hay bales on the top floor of his barn.
Burst Manure Bubbles Cause Big Stink, but No Explosions Lauren Etter 2010
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Mr. Goltstein's next-door neighbor, Allen Hutchison, used binoculars to watch the deflations amid hay bales on the top floor of his barn.
Burst Manure Bubbles Cause Big Stink, but No Explosions Lauren Etter 2010
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Mr. Goltstein's next-door neighbor, Allen Hutchison, used binoculars to watch the deflations amid hay bales on the top floor of his barn.
Burst Manure Bubbles Cause Big Stink, but No Explosions Lauren Etter 2010
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A strong possibility will be the mother of all asset bubble deflations.
Sheldon Filger: Will China's Economic Crisis Worsen Due to Stimulus Spending? 2009
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These bring predictable -- and avoidable -- deflations, inflations and asset bubbles.
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