Greg Mankiw’s Blog: The Liquidity Trap may soon be over

About a decade ago….. I estimated the following simple formula for setting the federal funds rate:

Federal funds rate = 8.5 + 1.4 Core inflation – Unemployment

….Eddy Elfenbein has recently replotted this equation. Here it is:

Fed Funds Rate compared to Mankiw Rule

via Greg Mankiw’s Blog: The Liquidity Trap may soon be over.