---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1022e"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1022e"
heading: "Inflation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1022e"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — National Policy on Employment and Productivity"
---

# §1022e. Inflation

- (a) **Methods and requirements for achieving price stability—** The Congress determines that the objective of achieving [reasonable price stability](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e) as soon as feasible, as set forth in [section 1022(a)(3) of this title](/usc/15/1022.md?p=a-3) and [section 1022a(a) of this title](/usc/15/1022a.md?p=a), shall be pursued by the methods and subject to the requirements of [section 1022b(b) of this title](/usc/15/1022b.md?p=b).
- (b) **Coordination of fiscal or monetary policies with specific targeted policies—** The Congress finds that sole dependence upon fiscal or monetary policies or both to combat [inflation](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e) can exacerbate both [inflation](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e) and unemployment. The Congress finds that the coordinated use of fiscal and monetary policies in conjunction with specific targeted policies are necessary to combat [inflation](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e).
- (c) **Policy initiation and recommendations; elements of structural policies—** The President shall initiate specific policies to reduce the rate of [inflation](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e), including recommendations to the Congress where necessary, and include recommendations within the Economic Report and the President’s budget to the extent practicable. Structural policies to reduce the rate of [inflation](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e) may include—
  - (1) an effective information system to monitor and analyze inflationary trends in individual economic sectors, so that the President and Congress can be alerted to developing [inflation](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e) problems especially those caused by bottlenecks inhibiting the flow of goods and services;
  - (2) programs and policies for alleviating shortages of goods, services, labor, and capital, with particular emphasis on [food](/usc/15/55.md?p=b), energy, and critical industrial materials to aid in stabilizing [prices](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e);
  - (3) the establishment of stockpiles of agricultural commodities and other critical materials to help stabilize [prices](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e), meet emergency needs, and promote adequate income to producers;
  - (4) encouragement to labor and management to increase productivity within the national framework of full employment through voluntary arrangements in industries and economic sectors;
  - (5) recommendations to increase competition in the private sector and to improve the economic climate for the creation and growth of smaller businesses, including recommendations to strengthen and enforce the [antitrust laws](/usc/15/37a.md?p=1), the patent laws, and the internal revenue laws and regulations;
  - (6) removal or proper modification of such Government restrictions and regulations as added unnecessarily to inflationary costs;
  - (7) increasing exports and improving the international competitive position of agriculture, business, and industry; and
  - (8) such other administrative actions and recommendations for legislation as the President deems desirable, to promote [reasonable price stability](/usc/15/1022.md?p=e).

## Source credit

(Feb. 20, 1946, ch. 33, § 8, as added Pub. L. 95–523, title I, § 109, Oct. 27, 1978, 92 Stat. 1898.)