At the time of that FOMC meeting, the consumer price index was increasing at about 3% per year. Most of the discussion focused on whether the Fed should slow annual price growth to 2% or even lower, thereby consolidating the gains made in the difficult fight against inflation that policymakers had waged for the previous 15 years.
那次FOMC会议举行时，消费者物价指数正在以每年约3%的速度增加。大部分讨论集中在美联储是否应该将年物价增长减缓至2%甚至更低，以巩固过去15年中决策者苦苦缠斗通胀所取得的战果。格林斯潘总结陈词：“……现在，我们全体同意2%……”