The idea of creating a framework for explicit inflation targeting in the U.S. has recently become a topic of considerable discussion. The key question is: Could inflation targeting improve on the U.S. economy's performance? President Anthony Santomero thinks inflation targeting makes sense for...

The subject of our next article, "The Taylor Curve and the Unemployment-Inflation Tradeoff," by Satyajit Chatterjee, is finding an optimal monetary policy menu. In the past, monetary policy options were described in terms of a tradeoff between the unemployment rate and the inflation rate, the...