Exports drive growth while race-to-the-bottom competition from overproduction hits prices, profits, wages and sales.

Deflation is often misunderstood as a positive economic phenomenon due to the immediate benefit of lower prices for consumers. However, it represents a prolonged decline in the general price level of ...

BEIJING -- When he bought an apartment near a good high school in northeast Beijing in 2020, Zhou Fujin expected that renting it out would cover most of his mortgage. But the apartment's value and the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has cleared the key threshold for the government to officially declare an end to long-term price deflation, economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Friday. The remark ...

Pressure on rampaging prices is inevitable during a high cost-of-living crisis. The no-brainer solution is to lower prices to bearable levels. It’s called deflation. That’s not happening, and ...

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood is calling for an economic “Goldilocks” scenario in 2026, forecasting real GDP growth surging toward 5%, accompanied by falling inflation—and potentially outright ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a congressional panel Wednesday that the Fed is ready and able to do whatever necessary to guard against the remote possibility that a ...

A growing fear of economic deflation helped take the air out of the stock market yesterday, and another white-knuckle final hour on Wall Street pushed the Dow Jones industrials under 8,000 to their ...