John H. Cochrane

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Inflating away our troubles?

April 22 2017  Comments on "Inflating away the public debt? An empirical assessment" by Jens Hilscher, Alon Aviv and Ricardo Reis. A little inflation will not likely help our debt problems. An interest rate rise could make matters much worse, and precipitate a debt crisis, which would cause a lot of inflation. Slides

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