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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1066941, member: 3011&quot;]Absolutely.&nbsp; Crashing markets are always deflationary.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:&nbsp; Think about it.&nbsp; Bonds down, real estate down, stocks down.&nbsp; Money is debt and debt is money.&nbsp; After a bond crash, there will be a huge decline in the amount of money in circulation, and a mad scramble to liquidate assets to get a share of what remains.&nbsp; Demand for imports will just about cease, and prices of imports will plunge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit2:&nbsp; All of this presumes no other action will be taken.&nbsp; It is possible and perhaps likely that the Treasury will mail everone a check for $100k or so to try to stem the deflation.&nbsp; That&#039;s what makes things so unpredictable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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