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A “soft landing” is the difficult and often elusive feat of successfully lowering inflation after having tightened monetary policy, but without triggering a recession. When fighting inflation, policy makers raise interest rates to make credit more expensive. This dampens aggregate demand and takes some of the inflationary steam out of the economy. The challenge is […]

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