On July 2, 1996, at a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which was devoted to extensive discussion of the appropriate inflation target for the Fed, Greenspan posed a simple question: “Are we talking about price stability or are we talking about zero inflation?” he asked. “As we all know, those are two separate things.”
El 2 de julio de 1996 en una reunión de la Comité Federal de Mercado Abierto (FOMC), cuya misión es dedicarse a debatir cuál es el objetivo de inflación adecuado para la Fed, Greenspan planteó una pregunta simple: “¿Estamos hablando de estabilidad de precios o estamos hablando de inflación cero?, ya que, como todos sabemos, esas son dos cosas separadas”.