The dominant view of inflation holds that it is macroeconomic in origin and must always be tackled with macroeconomic … tightening. In contrast, we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers' inflation that derives from … trying to fend off real wage declines in the conflict stage. We argue that such sellers' inflation generates a general price …

In Canada, targeting the inflation rate was intended as a temporary measure on a journey to price-level stability, but … account, changing beliefs about the stability or otherwise of ongoing inflation, the capacity of a flexible exchange rate to … inflation targeting arrived on the scene only after the Canadian regime was well established. …