deflation

Japan prices continue record fall More deflation through 2012? :boxedin: How will it end? Why can't the central bank make it end by just printing more money? I don't understand why it's difficult to end deflation? Can't they even kill two birds with one stone: Give the money to the...

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=242453&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=19675295 Hmm. This sounds rather glib to me. I'm not an economist, but this sounds like the kind of thing that might sound ok, but forgets some basics.