Reeling world economy slammed by dangerous disinflationary shock

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Bloomberg/Rich Miller and Enda Curran

“The sinking global economy is suffering through a colossal disinflationary shock that could briefly push it into dangerous deflation territory for the first time in decades.”

USAGOLD note:  The gravitational pull of disinflation was a constant in the economy even before the coronavirus.  Now it is fully asserting itself according to this Bloomberg article – at least in the short term.  Debt becomes an enormous weight under such conditions with threats to the stability of the financial system multiplying accordingly. The last crisis was essentially a disinflationary breakdown.  Gold rose to the occasion:

overlay chart showing gold's performance during the disinflation period following the 2008 financial meltdown