Facts About the Fed

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Yesterday's editorial "Wall Street and the Fed" seems to confuse both basic economic statistics and the source of the financial community's consternation over the current Federal Reserve Board.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 4.2 percent annualized rate of consumer inflation on Wednesday, not 5.2 percent as the editorial states, which (had it been reported) would have been a number not seen since the early 1990s.

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Facts About the Fed

That leaves the real fed funds rate at 0.8 percent. In addition to be...

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