Jul 252012
The WSJ buries the lead in this story about the Fed:
Fed Sees Action if Growth Doesn’t Pick Up Soon – WSJ.com.
You have to go almost to page 2 to find out what action the Fed is talking about. Up until the last part of paragraph 4 it keeps us in suspense, speaking vaguely of “taking new steps” and “moving” and “taking actions.”
Only then do you learn that printing money to buy more securities is at the top of the list, followed by lowering interest rates even closer toward zero than they already are.
It makes one wonder if it’s not so much that the WSJ doesn’t have editors who can make sure that the main point comes first in the article, but that the Fed is not very proud of what it’s about to do.