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Deflation's icy grip

Deflation's icy grip

China faces a bleak winter of falling prices (and way too many pigs)

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Dec 14, 2023
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As a vicious cold snap brings northern China shuddering to a halt, Morgan Stanley’s Asia economist Chetan Ahya warns in an op-ed that the country could be flirting with a debt-deflationary spiral.

“To address the deflation challenge,” Ahya writes in the Financial Times, “policymakers need to use the full force of monetary and fiscal policies to lift ag…

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