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The price level behaves as the aggregate of mostly backward-looking decisions rather than as an asset price, except during hyperinflation, so expected future primary balances barely affect it today.

Drawn from what Olivier Blanchard said

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fiscal policy The spending-and-taxing half of macro, as against the central-bank half: multipliers, stabilisers, stimulus.

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What Olivier Blanchard actually said

  1. Olivier Blanchard Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund
    I believe that, except in times of hyperinflation, the price level does not behave as an asset price but as the aggregate of billions of mostly backward-looking decisions, and that expectations of future primary balances have little effect on the price level today.

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