{"id":987032,"date":"2023-02-09T06:39:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=273546"},"modified":"2023-02-09T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T06:39:11","slug":"the-feds-2-0-percent-inflation-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/09\/the-feds-2-0-percent-inflation-target\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fed\u2019s 2.0 Percent Inflation Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone recognizes that inflation has slowed sharply from the peaks hit in the spring of 2022. The question often asked is whether the inflation rate has dropped to the Fed\u2019s 2.0 percent target. This requires a bit more careful thinking than it has received. Before directly addressing this issue, let me briefly deal with a  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/09\/the-feds-2-0-percent-inflation-target\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/09\/the-feds-2-0-percent-inflation-target\/\">The Fed&#8217;s 2.0 Percent Inflation Target<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/09\/the-feds-2-0-percent-inflation-target\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone recognizes that inflation has slowed sharply from the peaks hit in the spring of 2022. The question often asked is whether the inflation rate has dropped to the Fed\u2019s 2.0 percent target. This requires a bit more careful thinking than it has re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987033,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987032\/revisions\/987033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}