Falling prices may really be more a symptom of malaise rather than a cause for further grief.
European Central Bank policymakers have repeatedly warned of the risk of being drawn into a prolonged downward price spiral, a danger that has led them to an unprecedented government bond-buying programme that will pump hundreds of billions of new euros into the sagging euro zone economy.
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