The Problems with Low Inflation (VIDEO)
December 18, 2019
Michael Klein, Executive Editor of EconoFact and Dan Sichel (Wellesley) highlight some of the problems with low inflation.
Monetary Policy
December 18, 2019
Michael Klein, Executive Editor of EconoFact and Dan Sichel (Wellesley) highlight some of the problems with low inflation.
October 8, 2019
Inflation has averaged just over 1-1/2 percent over the past decade. With unemployment at historic lows, continued soft inflation poses a puzzle and a challenge.
August 13, 2018
Accounting for inflation would tax the increase in the real purchasing power of an asset rather than the increase in value that reflects overall rising prices.
August 6, 2017
The Federal Reserve Bank has persistently undershot its inflation target of 2 percent. This level of low inflation is puzzling, given the low unemployment.