Please Sirs, May We Have Some More?
Nobel Prize winner Robert Engle says more inflation would help:
New York University professor Robert Engle said policy makers should consider allowing slightly higher inflation as a way to spur the U.S. economy, joining fellow Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman who says it could reduce unemployment.
“A little bit of inflation would do a whole lot of good for the U.S. economy, would certainly do a lot of good for the housing market,” Engle, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2003...
Posted by Mark Thoma on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 01:06 PM in Economics, Inflation, Monetary Policy |
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