Has Global Stag-Deflation Arrived?

"While it is now fashionable to talk about such deflationary risks – and the US CPI figures today confirm that we are entering into deflation – some of us were worrying about the coming deflation well before the mainstream – concerned with short-run and unsustainable increases in commodity prices – discovered the deflationary risks in the global economy. It was clear to those of us that saw early on the risks of a severe US and global recession that, once that recession would emerge, deflationary rather than inflationary pressures would emerge as slack in goods markets, slack in labor markets and slack in commodity markets would emerge."