Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.
I continue to think many of the factors holding down inflation are transitory... We want to be careful not to jump to a premature conclusion about what's in store for the U.S. economy.
During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.
Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits.
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.
It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.
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