In her recent Congressional testimony, Fed Chair Janet Yellen referred several times to the mandate of maintaining “stable prices”; but she mentioned the Fed’s 2% inflation objective twice as often. “US inflation continues to run below the Committee’s 2% objective,” she said, and the current “high degree of policy accommodation remains appropriate to foster further improvement in labor market conditions and to promote a return of inflation toward 2% over the medium term.”
在最新的国会听证中，美联储主席耶伦数次提到保持“物价稳定”的使命，但提到美联储2%的通胀目标的次数是前者的两倍。“美国通胀仍低于委员会2%的目标，”她说，当前的“高度政策协调仍然有利于刺激劳动力市场条件进一步改善、促使通胀在中期回到2%。”