Hi deflation!

[Nym90]

Many prices are up 1% here this month. Of course that's thanks to the temporary 1% increase in the sales tax.

True.

However, most price increases generally are occurring through companies attempting to keep up their margins in the face of collapsing demand.

True. Hence the need for demand-side economics to help pump up said demand.

The potential danger of that is usually inflation, but as the article states, we don't have to worry about that at the moment.