Wie an anderer Stelle schon geschrieben: die FED und insbesondere Bernanke werden alles tun, um Inflation zu vermeiden. Seine Rede dazu aus dem Jahr 2002 (!) findet man hier:
www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/...21121/default.htm
Da heißt es wörtlich:
"(...) some observers have concluded that when the central bank's policy rate falls to zero--its practical minimum--monetary policy loses its ability to further stimulate aggregate demand and the economy. At a broad conceptual level, and in my view in practice as well, this conclusion is clearly mistaken. Indeed, under a fiat (that is, paper) money system, a government (in practice, the central bank in cooperation with other agencies) should always be able to generate increased nominal spending and inflation, even when the short-term nominal interest rate is at zero."