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As the solid blue line in figure 1 indicates, inflation as measured by the price  -2index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE) has generally run below the FOMC’s 2 percent longer-run objective since that goal was announced in January 2012. 1 Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, has also fallen persistently short of 2 percent (the red dashed line).