Because of agricultural subsidy policies, however, cotton prices had been plummeting.

Unsurprisingly, this has exacerbated the fear of deflation, with the consumer price index (CPI) rising by just 0.8 year on year in January, and the annual decline in producer prices steepening, to 4.3 . While these trends are undoubtedly being amplified by plummeting world oil prices, China's core CPI inflation rate (which excludes volatile food and energy prices) was near 1 in January.

First, as plummeting stock prices caused the equity in investors accounts to fall below the maintenance margin, brokers began issuing margin calls, forcing investors to offload more assets to come up with the needed cash. When they failed to pay margin calls on time, their shares were sold by brokers, pushing stock prices down further.

In these days of froth, the persistence of extraordinary policy accommodation in a financial system flooded with liquidity poses a great danger. Indeed, that could well be the lesson of recent equity and currency market volatility and, of course, plummeting oil prices.

The paradoxical result was that, in an era of continuously growing need, official development assistance was plummeting.

And it's really a conflux of urban population rising, biodiversity plummeting and also, of course, sea levels rising and climate changing.

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With tourist arrivals in the country plummeting, authorities had worried that the number of visitors to this year's pilgrimage would be sharply down.

Wholesale prices followed trends similar to those of retail prices.

As for the United States, plummeting gas prices an extraordinary 25 decline in roughly one month have increased consumer confidence and spending at a time when consumers were supposed to be in full retreat because of the housing market decline. Moreover, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says the housing market correction is already almost over.

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Signs of the American economy s perilous condition are everywhere from yawning fiscal and current account deficits to plummeting home prices and a feeble dollar. But something that shows up in none of the economic indicators may be driving many of them the deterioration of American management, which is undermining not only many of America s great enterprises, but also its legendary spirit of enterprise.

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