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Janet Yellen: “It is important when we have a 2-percent inflation objective to make sure that we achieve it.”

On the recordJuly 12, 2017
It is important when we have a 2-percent inflation objective to make sure that we achieve it.
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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Yellen stresses the significance of meeting the inflation objective.

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