Alan Greenspan is probably not irrationally exuberant with his CPI view.

  • "The tendency toward inflation remains, unfortunately, well above the average of about 2% over the past two decades"
  • some inflationary forces he says are likely to be transitory but there are other pressures to keep it above 2% longer-term

That is from a research note he has written released by Advisors Capital Management (conveyed via a Bloomberg piece, link here, may be gated)

Alan Greenspan is probably not irrationally exuberant with his CPI view.