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by aeternus 2522 days ago
Sustaining the expansion is questionable but the Fed's more specific goal has been to maintain inflation at around 2%, which it has done surprisingly well over the last 20 years. Of course, we have no way of knowing if the Fed's actions were actually causal.

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