A central bank should always be able to generate inflation, even when the short-term nominal interest rate is zero ...[this] more direct method, which I personally prefer, would be for the Fed to announce ceilings for yields on all longer-maturity Treasury debt.
- Ben Bernanke, Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2002
Bernanke doctrine (3) Lower interest rates – all the way down to 0 per cent.
Bernanke observed that people have traditionally thought that, when the funds rate hits zero, the Federal Reserve will have run out of ammunition. However, by imposing yields paid by long-term Treasury Bonds.
He noted that Fed had successfully engaged in "bond-price pegging" following the Second World War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernanke_doctrine
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boardDocs/speeches/2002/20021121/default.htm
http://finclip.blogspot.com/2002/11/remarks-by-governor-ben-s-bernanke.html
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