The Fed's Mandate on Inflation

If the Fed takes rates up to where Jim Bullard has just said, then look out. I think we're going to have a meltdown in the banking industry. There's a kind of a false conversation, a false narrative in the US that somehow we can keep inflation low. The society loves inflation. We have to get to the point where we can actually get Congress to fix Humphrey Hawkins, drop the full employment part of the mandate. And let's remember the third mandate that we never talk about, which was stable long-term interest rates.