Ending the Fed’s Inflation Fixation

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Ending the Fed’s Inflation Fixation. Martin Feldstein, May 17, 2016, Opinion, "The primary role of the Federal Reserve and other central banks should be to prevent high rates of inflation. The double-digit inflation rates of the late 1970s and early ’80s were a destructive and frightening experience that could have been avoided by better monetary policy in the previous decade. Fortunately, the Fed’s tighter monetary policy under Paul Volcker brought the inflation rate down and set the stage for a strong economic recovery during the Reagan years." Link

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