Along with others, Mr White was invited to provide an answer to the question, posed by the magazine The International Economy, of how the Fed’s mandate might be changed. He suggested that efforts to raise inflationary expectations by changing the mandate were doomed to failure. Rather, the Fed should pay less attention to decimal point deviations from inflation targets and focus more intently on avoiding credit driven “busts” in financial markets. The article was published in the Spring 2019 edition.
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