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The Road Back to 2% Inflation
Episode 216

The Road Back to 2% Inflation

Notes on the Week Ahead

April 17, 20238m 31s

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Show Notes

It seems like a distant memory now, but in the decade before the pandemic, the main preoccupation of the Federal Reserve was boosting inflation, as measured by the headline personal consumption deflator, to 2%.  Inflation undershot this target in ten of the twelve years between 2008 and 2019.