Inflation target in question again

The wisdom of the Bank of Japan sticking with an inflation target it can’t reach is being questioned again, including by Japan’s finance minister this week. But all alternatives would be worse. And this would, in any case, be an inopportune time to signal less urgency towards policy easing, when the economic picture appears to be darkening.

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