expected inflation. The inability of the Fed to maintain a credible commitment to low interest rates in the face of increased … government spending and rising inflation led to the Fed-Treasury Accord of March 1951. Following the Accord, the external …

- than fixed-rate contracts. The source of impulse also matters: persistent inflation shocks have larger effects than … cyclical fluctuations in inflation and nominal interest rates. …

policy returns to normal. The first regime is a return to the high and volatile inflation rate of the 1970s. The second … regime, the one that most Federal Reserve officials and business economists expect, is a return to the credible low inflation … inflation, the policy rate and the 10-year bond rate. These models are used to forecast the U.S. economy from 2008 through 2013 …