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ECB’s Rehn: Economic Rebound Weaker Than Expected
ECB’s Rehn: Economic Rebound Weaker Than Expected
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- Shape Of Recovery Looks Like 'Truncated Square Root'
- Inflation Risks Are On The Downside
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ECB could live with some inflation overshoot to help employment - Olli Rehn
The European Central Bank should follow the U.S. Federal Reserve in putting more emphasis on welfare when it’s setting policy, even if that would mean inflation exceeded its target temporarily, ECB Governing Council member Olli Rehn said. The Fed said recently it would let the jobs market run hotter in the future to help lower-income families, an unusual foray into social policy that has historically been off-limits to central banks. But Rehn argued that the new economic realities guiding the Fed also applied to Europe. Low unemployment no longer comes at the cost of rapid inflation, so central banks can afford to ... (full story)