| Lower oil prices are not a good thing for Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president: that much is clear. But what about for everyone else? The sharp fall in crude over the past three months has produced an unusual amount of concern that, with inflation already dangerously low across much of the developed world, cheaper oil will worsen the problem.
Such fears are misplaced. To think that lower oil prices are a net negative for the world economy, and particularly for the advanced economies, is to misunderstand the problem with deflation and the cures for it...............................................Full Article: Source
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