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Interest Rates and the Fed Inflation Target

February 28, 2008
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, a long-time proponent of inflation-targeting, has set a specific inflation target of 1.5% to 2% over three years in a semi-annual FOMC report to Congress. Bernanke and the Fed were thought to have set a target as low as 1% to 2% so the “new” target range gives the Fed a [...]

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