Warsh faces multiple alternative inflation signs as Fed charts new course
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has said that inflation is a "choice." The same could also be true of how inflation is measured. While the central bank has its own favorite metric courtesy of the Commerce Department, the public data base is rife with other gauges of how price pressures are best viewed. It's likely that many of them will get a serious look as the Warsh Fed plots what he called on Wednesday a "new course" for how it operates and specifically what will be the data triggers for the ways it implements monetary policy. "My hope, my aspiration, is that nine-12 months from now we're going to be using new technologies to understand what's happening in the real economy in a contemporaneous, real-time way that positions us as central bankers to make better decisions," he said during a discussion at the European Central Bank Forum on Monetary Policy in Sintra, Portugal. Warsh has formulated five task forces to look at an array of Fed...
