Fed's Lacker: core inflation still too high

Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, said on 22 May that core inflation was still too high and rising expectations of future price pressures was a source of concern.

In an interview with CNBC he said, "Core inflation has been fluctuating between 2 and 2.5 (%) for two years now, since April 2004. Before that, from 1996 until 2003, core inflation went between 1-2%. We need to get back to containing core inflation between 1-2%".

"The fact that inflation expectations seem

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