deflationary
Adjective
Meaning
associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money
Source: WordNetAntonyms
Examples
deflationary measures
And amazingly, we're not using it because of some morality idea that we can't do this because it will lead to inflation, when we know we're in a deflationary spiral.
By the first quarter of 1999, GDP growth had risen to 5.4%, and strong growth thereafter combined with deflationary pressure on the currency led to a yearly growth of 10.5%.
Alternate theories link deflationary pressure with increases in the working age population and find that inflationary pressure generally increases when the share of dependents (the young and old) increases.
It attributed deflationary spirals to the reverse effect of a failure of a central bank to support the money supply during a liquidity crunch.
Claiming that the Scullin government was incapable of managing the economy, it offered traditional deflationary economic policies in response to Australia's economic crisis.