How come none of the economics blogs I follow regularly noted that yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Paul Volcker's announcement that the Fed would begin targeting non-borrowed reserves rather than the federal funds rate? This decision was the beginning of the end of the Great Inflation that wracked the economy in the 1970s. It was such a historical milestone that today no respectable macroeconomist will run a regression on post-war US data without acknowledging the likelihood of a structural break in 1979:Q4.
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Happy (belated) non-borrowed reserves targeting day
Friday, October 7, 2011
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