The cycle follows: first yields (interest rates, dividends, profit, etc.) dissappear...secondly, when yield is no longer available, the capitalist system makes up for lost yield by increasing volume (more sales, capital gains in lieu of interest or dividend payments, etc.)....in an attempt to make up for lost yields...it is the transgenerational "volume" cycle that induces lower general prices that makes people feel richer, when they feel richer they take on great amounts of debt that they cannot repay! They cannot repay because yield (profit) doesn't exist, and sooner rather than later their employer must dismiss them when excess debt begins to diminish or decline volume .... when the system loses both major yield & volume, economists call it a depression.....