Cutting back staff while staring a shrinking market cap in the face may be painful, but it's not a deathblow.

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By helping them to overcome their fear of falling prices, it will encourage them to deal a deathblow to the worldwide scourge of inflation.

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So, the deathblow has already been delivered.

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