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Podcast: Notes on the Week Ahead
Episode: The Road Back to 2% Inflation
Description: It seems like a distant memory now, but in the decade before the pandemic, the main preoccupation of the Federal Reserve was boosting inflation, as measured by the headline personal consumption deflator, to 2%. Inflation undershot this target in ten of the twelve years between 2008 and 2019.Â