[mech987]

>The risk is that it will be excessively contractionary and will trigger a worldwide recession

>Those who advocate a tightening of fiscal and monetary policy in the name of stopping inflation, do so because they fear a build up of inflationary momentum. That risk may be real. No less real, however, are the costs of the contractionary policy mix being applied now.

My intuition on the problem is that no matter where we fall along the spectrum once it lands, we will have both unacceptably high inflation (which we've already had) and an unacceptably large recession. Don't know which one will hurt more yet.