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While property prices have plummeted since 2005, mortgage values have not (yet) followed suit, reports HousingStory.net. Check out this chart – it’s worth 1000 (debt deflationary) words! Chart source and commentary courtesy of HousingStory.net Also a hat tip to fellow deflationist Carson for sending this beauty along!

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Soon after stocks bottomed on March 6, 2009, we noticed that commodity prices – most notably agriculture prices – were starting to rally.  In early May, we wrote about the rally in soft commodities, and what it implied for the inflation/deflation outlook: A few weeks ago (April ’09), we noticed that not only had commodities appeared […]

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Fantastic post over at Pragmatic Capitalism about what the current rally in the US dollar means in the ongoing inflation vs deflation tug-of-war: If the chart below doesn’t grab your attention then few things will. In my opinion, the performance of the dollar is the surest evidence of the kind of environment we’re currently in. […]

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The deflation camp may not be well populated, but I have to say that I really dig the few economists and analysts that are sympathetic to the deflation argument.  Perhaps it’s just because we all smoke the same lettuce – but I prefer to think there’s more to it than that 🙂 One of our […]

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It’s looking more and more apparent by the day that deflation is returning to the financial markets – and with a vengeance. Yes sir, deflation is back – it’s out to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and apparently it has just run out of gum! The reflation trade is being exposed as the fraud we […]

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