Economics

This Fed Inflation Measure Is Skyrocketing

January's minutes weighed in at 8,000-plus words, another sign of ever-growing verbosity at the central bank
Photographer: ANDREW WHEELER
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While inflation is getting harder to find around the world these days, word inflation is alive and well at the Federal Reserve.

"The Fed minutes … seem like hours,'' Robert Brusca at FAO Economics chimed in after the central bank's release on Wednesday of the records of their Jan. 27-28 discussion.