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Why the Reserve Bank should resist calls to alter its inflation range

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

For economists and others who ‘grew up’ being challenged to achieve low and stable inflation against the background of high and volatile inflation rates that emerged in Western countries in the 1970s (and persisted in Australia through the 1980s), the possibility inflation could be ‘too low’ can seem like something from...

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