While the long arm of the grinding, deep financial crisis continues to haunt the global economic recovery, the big question, debated by the world's pundits, is whether the decades-long disinflation will be followed by an equally lengthy return to a '60s, '70s or early '80s-type intensifying inflation. The preliminary answer might lie in the factors that underlie the genesis of these economically debilitating phenomenon.
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