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Restoring Price Stability and the Burdens of High Inflation
This chapter discusses the burdens of high inflation and the actions needed to restore price stability. It emphasizes the need for using tools forcefully to balance supply and demand and mentions that reducing inflation may require below trend growth and softening of labor market conditions. The chapter highlights that while these measures may bring some pain to households and businesses, failure to restore price stability would cause even greater pain.