What will Jackson Hole bring?

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The annual Jackson Hole central banking swingers party is later this week. Via FT:

Several Fed officials have already expressed a willingness to allow inflation to run above the central bank’s 2 per cent target to make up for prolonged periods of undershooting.

In Europe, investors will be looking for any clues about the likely next steps of the European Central Bank when its chief economist Philip Lane speaks about its monetary policy and the outlook for the eurozone economy.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.