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by not-elite 1697 days ago
The "inflation targeting era" began around 1995 [1]. The official story explaing how 2% became an (informal) international standard is kind of interesting [2].

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/-/media/project/frbstl/stlouisfed...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/upshot/of-kiwis-and-curre...