text:  Would not really do much, though, to help them get inflation down to the 2% that they have been aiming for these past few years. That has been the tradeoff for decades now, actually. The tension in the two things the Fed is required by law to do. Maximum employment is thing one. Keep prices stable, that is control inflation, is thing two. Thing is that the relationship between inflation and unemployment just isn't as black and white as it used to be. Marketplace's Kelly Wells gets us going.