MUCH as the world aspires to be normal after two wrenching years of a pandemic, the Federal Reserve (Fed) is reaching for a neutral monetary policy that will arrest inflation without triggering a recession. But finding neutral on the economy’s gearshift may not be any easier than defining normal these days.
Monetary policy is much less precise than we’d like to believe. We can’t even be sure what a neutral rate would be.
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