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How Well Do Adaptive Inflation Expectations Do, 1982-2023?

Answer: so-so.

Reader Erik Poole commenting on this figure (in this post) writes:

Assuming that the all the inflation forecasts are one-year forecasts in the above chart, do we have any kind of inflation expectations data for shorter time frames, such as 6 months?

The above is a fancy way of asking: are financial markets and professional forecastersb really that bad at forecasting inflation?

Glancing at the above chart, it appears to make a good argument for adaptive expectations driving economic agents inflation expectations.

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