Additional inflation of 5 percent meant a 5 percent rise in unemployment benefits.
Additional inflation would also be stimulative thanks to its effect on the nation's current account, via the exchange rate.
Moreover, even if some additional inflation is a side effect of the Fed's prescription, many economists say, it sure beats the alternative.
"Our numbers here imply there has to be some additional inflation in the next six months to get out of the negatives we're in right now".
"It's not clear we can get substantial improvements in [employment] without some additional inflation risk," he said.Mr Bernanke said at the time that the trade-offs to additional easing are less attractive than they previously were, and so new purchases were unlikely.
And I think there is, with the debt that's going to be created in this process that, you know, we believe that there could be significant amounts of additional inflation going out a year or two or three.
Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, which would, in theory, save the nation $592 billion annually on health care costs (not to mention the $1.8 trillion saved over the course of a decade due to the lack of health cost inflation), not add any additional costs.
Health and care should be on a flat, inflation-proofed budget until 2020 with any additional increases coming from new revenue sources.
After adjustment for these three components as covariates in our logistic regression modelling, there was no discernable residual inflation in rare variant association statistics, indicating that any additional fine-scale population structure had no impact on our analysis.
Any additional increment has been based on arbitrary predictions of the consumer index or inflation.
