Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 10 of 13

Published by Admin on 24th June 2009
Filed Under commodities, commodity futures, future, interest rates, reserve interest rates, reviews, trading

Balancing Inflation and Growth Part 10 of 13

There was a time, back when I was an outside observer of the Federal Reserve, when commodity future option trading the Fed practiced what some have dubbed opportunistic disinflation. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the FOMC recognized that while recessions sometimes occur, they could not be anticipated with any precision and that by the time the data revealed a recession, it was too late to do much about it, given the impact lags of monetary policy. The FOMC also recognized that the trend rate of inflation generally fell by about a percentage point or more following a recession. Put it all together and you get opportunistic disinflation, or the idea that if recession comes, make the best of it by bringing down the inflation rate.

This was a period of persistent disinflationand, I might add, a period during which the U.S. economy experienced only two short and mild recessions, a total of 16 months over almost 25 years. Over this same period, the inflation rate declined inexorably, reaching a point where the FOMC had to deal with the threat of deflation in 200304. It was also the period when the Fed made the largest gains in its policy credibility and commodity trading education.

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