US Dollar Deflation in 2013

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US Dollar Deflation 1913 to 2005

Citi currency guru Steven Englander has a new note out titled: No coin + temporary debt ceiling extension + sequester = US Dollar negative. In it he notes that the rejection of the trillion dollar coin idea to avert the debt ceiling is not alone a market moving event, but that the hard language taken by the White House that the choices boil down to clean lift or default raises the odds of a debt ceiling breach. His take:

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