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"The good implication is that a monetary policy that delivers nominal stability, also delivers real output stability and low and stable inflation!"

Is it not also true that policy that delivers low a stable inflation would deliver real an nominal GDP stability?

In your NGDP framework how is optimal NGDP growth estimated?

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Is it not also true that policy that delivers low a stable inflation would deliver real an nominal GDP stability? Unfortunately, no. As James Mead put in his Nobel Lecture: "Inflation targeting can be dangerous"!

https://thefaintofheart.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/ngdp-level-targeting-james-meade-understood-it-almost-40-years-ago/

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Thanks for sharing meaningful and valuable analysis.

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