China is pivoting away from consumer subsidy efforts and toward combating deflation and price wars. Beijing had earlier vowed ...

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Continuous inflation or deflation left unchecked can wound the economy. While deflation can drive down prices, which is good, profits and wages may also suffer and repaying debt becomes expensive.

Deflationary conditions eased for the fifth consecutive month in July 2025, with the year-on-year (Y-o-Y) change in the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI, 2021=100)1 recording a milder headline ...

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Deflation makes the situation worse, inflation makes the situation less bad. These ‘directions of travel’ means inflation is highly likely. Will most people even notice 7% inflation a year?

But when considering the risks of deflation, we shouldn't look at the CPI in isolation. The phenomenon of prices falling modestly at a time when the economy at large is growing at a 3 percent ...

When there is deflation, people don’t want to borrow, because any money they borrow increases in value during the period of the loan. And they don’t want to spend, because prices tomorrow will ...