Encouraging inflation would boost US growth and risks

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In this article

  • Channels of inflation transmission
  • Household balance sheets
  • Consumers
  • Housing
  • Exports
  • Would higher inflation help?
  • Costs and risks
  • Future tightening -- and recession
  • Bondholder losses
  • Generational tensions
  • Fed credibility
  • Runaway inflation
  • 'Deadweight losses'
  • No quick fix

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