In the Seven Faces of “The Peril” (2010), St. Louis Fed president Jim Bullard speculated on the prospect of the U.S. falling into a Japanese-style deflationary outcome. His analysis was built on an insight of Benhabib, Schmitt-Grohe, and Uribe (2001) in The Perils of Taylor Rules. These authors (BSU) showed that if monetary policy is conducted according to a Taylor rule, [...]