High Inflation and Fiscal Policy
The more important question for fiscal policy is what happens when monetary policy normalizes.
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The more important question for fiscal policy is what happens when monetary policy normalizes.
Well-designed fiscal policy should help the hardest-hit and most vulnerable families.
Fiscal policy that boosts productivity is the best offense against future inflation.
Inflation’s legacy of higher real interest rates poses a significant danger to the federal budget.
Financing the debt will become more burdensome now that interest rates have returned to their pre-pandemic levels.
High inflation breeds instability, raising the risk of both higher interest rates and recession.
We can’t return to the low-inflation, low-interest rate world; we can only go forward through the wormhole the pandemic opened.
Inflation and interest rates will have important impacts on the long-term federal budget outlook.
Debt will continue to accumulate unless reforms are undertaken.
“On the heels of the first meaningful deficit reduction initiative in years in the Inflation Reduction Act, it’s highly irresponsible, unfortunate and unwise to wipe out those fiscal benefits with this announcement," said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.