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Issues arising from the new ‘Powell doctrine’ (Vox EU, 6 min read) Economist Ignazio Angeloni points out that AIT assumes past inflation gaps may alter expectations. Still, there is no evidence that expectations are backwards-looking. The framework is asymmetric too- ‘shortfalls of employment are corrected, excesses are not’. Likewise, the new framework will be abandoned if deflation risk goes away making the framework time-inconsistent.