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Inflation: The Rumors of its Death are Greatly Exaggerated

Banks bitten in 2008, are, along with their regulators, twice shy to make the marginal loan.  The short summary of Hanke’s remarks in the latest Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, includes, “But he invited the audience to imagine an upsurge in bank lending, perhaps stimulated by a Federal Reserve decision to pay a reduced rate of interest on excess reserves.”