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| | | | "Headline" inflation is making painful headlines again. In October, consumer prices rose by 6.2 percent from a year ago-the most rapid gain in at least three decades. Measures of trend inflation also are showing unsettling increases, with the trimmed mean CPI up by 4%. And there are reasons to believe that inflation will stay well above policymakers' 2% target for an extended period. In this post, we briefly summarize how we got here and argue that the Federal Reserve needs to change course now. In our v... | |
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| | | | The debate about the natural rate of interest, or r*, sometimes overlooks the point that there is an entire term structure of r* measures, with short-run estimates capturing current economic conditions and long-run estimates capturing more secular factors. The whole term structure of r* matters for policy: shorter run measures are relevant for gauging how restrictive or expansionary current policy is, while longer run measures are relevant when assessing terminal rates. This two-post series covers the ev... | |
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uneasymoney.com
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| | | | Jason Furman has had an admirable career as an economist and policy adviser. He was on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors in the Clinton administrations, was Assistant Director of the National Economic Policy under Larry Summers in Obama's first term served as Chairman of the CEA in his second. I am friendly... | |
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www.businesscar.co.uk
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| | The hydrogen fuel-cell dream has receded even further after BP demolished the only public hydrogen filling station in the UK.... |