“There are,’’ the Bank of England warns, “more consequences from falling prices than meets the eye.’’What could be so bad about lower prices?
It is only now emerging from decades of falling prices that began with the collapse of its property and financial markets in the early 1990s.
Mainly because falling prices tend to discourage consumers from spending.
Why buy now, after all, if you can purchase what you want — cars, furniture, appliances, vacations — at a lower price later?
If consumers were to pull back, en masse, to await lower prices, businesses would face intense pressure to cut prices even more to try to jump-start sales.
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they're, that's, what's, Joe Biden's, ’ ’ Lisa Cook, “, United States hasn’t, Tom Krisher
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WASHINGTON, Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, Bank of England, United, España, Unemployed, Bank of Japan, Fed, Bank for International, AP
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