Selasa, 19 Januari 2010

The fed funds rate: Too low for too long?

Here's an interesting graph. It shows the fraction of the time in each decade that the real fed funds rate was negative, i.e. the nominal fed funds rate was below the inflation rate. In the 1970s, we had significant consumer price inflation. In the 2000s, we had a credit bubble.

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