À atenção do ministro do Trabalho

"The Dismal Outlook for the US and Global Economy and the Financial Markets" por Nouriel Roubini.
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"The advanced economies will face stag-deflation (stagnation/recession and deflation) rather than stagflation as slack in goods markets, slack in labor markets and slack in commodity markets will lead advanced economies inflation rates to become below 1% by 2009.

Expect a few advanced economies (certainly US and Japan and possibly others) to reach the zero-bound constraint for policy rates by early 2009. With deflation on the horizon a zero-bound on interest rates implies the risk of a liquidity trap where money and bonds become perfectly substitutable, where real interest rates become high and rising thus further pushing down aggregate demand, and where money market funds returns cannot even cover their management costs. Deflation also implies a debt deflation where the real value of nominal debts is rising thus increasing the real burden of such debts. Monetary policy easing will become more aggressive in other advanced economies – even if the ECB will cut too little too late - but monetary policy easing will be little effective as it will be pushing on a string given the glut of global aggregate supply relative to demand and given a very severe credit crunch."