Changes

Forces that push an economy towards deflation include the following:

Forces that push an economy towards deflation include the following:

*high [[unemployment]], or low overall employment that can occur even if reported [[unemployment]] is small.  This is prevailing in 2017.

*high [[unemployment]], or low overall employment that can occur even if reported [[unemployment]] is small.  This is prevailed in 2017.

*extreme price-cutting by sellers, which can be encouraged by technological factors such as the [[internet]] or be due to intense competition such as [[price war]]s between [[Wal-Mart]] and [[Amazon.com|Amazon]], or between [[Apple]] and [[Google]] (now owned by Alphabet).

*extreme price-cutting by sellers, which can be encouraged by technological factors such as the [[internet]] or be due to intense competition such as [[price war]]s between [[Wal-Mart]] and [[Amazon.com|Amazon]], or between [[Apple]] and [[Google]] (now owned by Alphabet).

*[[invention]]s that sharply and quickly increase productivity, as occurred shortly after the [[Civil War]].

*[[invention]]s that sharply and quickly increase productivity, as occurred shortly after the [[Civil War]].