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Fed may need to let inflation run hot to meet goals: Evans (here it comes!)
Yahoo Finance ^

Posted on 02/28/2014 3:14:58 PM PST by Red in Blue PA

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should be willing to let inflation temporarily run above its target level so as to more quickly bring the economy back to health, a top Fed official said on Friday, even as a second policymaker signaled the very idea left him cold.

The debate, between Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, underscored a fundamental disagreement over the central bank's optimal approach to policy under new Fed Chair Janet Yellen.

To Evans, one of the Fed's most dovish policymakers, allowing inflation to run above the Fed's 2-percent target would be a small price to pay for bringing the U.S. economy back to full employment quickly, and could even signal the Fed's commitment to making good on its goals.

To Plosser, an ardent policy hawk, letting inflation rise above the target would call into question the Fed's commitment to its goals, undermining its policy effectiveness

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KEYWORDS: federalreserve; hyperinflation; inflation; obama; prepping; recession; shtf
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To: Red in Blue PA

Following the Feds idiotic logic, Zimbabwe should be a model economy with full employment.


21 posted on 02/28/2014 6:06:23 PM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: TomGuy

That is why food and fuel prices are typically excluded from the ‘inflation rate’.


As are medical care and school tuition.

Nothing meaningful to the average family’s budget.


22 posted on 03/01/2014 5:15:18 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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