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Price Stability Under Long-Run Monetary Targeting

By Peter N. Ireland
Economic Quarterly
Winter 1993

A simple model of the price level illustrates how Milton Friedman's k-percent monetary policy rule provides for price stability. His rule can, in particular, largely eliminate the problem of long-run price-level uncertainty emphasized by Irving Fisher.

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