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		roenxi on March 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan brings negative interest rates era to an end... Do you have a second example of deflationary collapse? I don't think the collapse of the Wiemar Republic is a great example. Maybe if we crop off 1 outlier we'll find something we can agree on. Possibly not of course, I do suspect that the problem is bad debts and the deflation is the last straw before things go bad. There are some well established links between debt and sudden collapses and I tend to blame the debts.

JumpCrisscross on March 21, 2024 [–]

> Do you have a second example of deflationary collapse?

The Great Depression.

Here is a paper that argues deflation is fine: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10329/w103.... It’s incredibly convoluted and unorthodox.

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