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Sep 2021
21m 33s

Making monetary policy fit for today and...

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
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Our inflation objective and how price changes are measured, employment, climate change… These are just some of the topics we’ve looked at during our strategy review, the outcome of which we revealed in July. In this episode of The ECB Podcast, our host Katie Ranger discusses the review with Chief Economist Philip R. Lane. The views expressed are those of t ... Show More
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