Inflation differences bother Fed's Lacker

Jeff Lacker, the president of the Richmond Federal Reserve, said he was troubled by the lengthy divergence between overall and core inflation in the United States.

"In the last few years, overall inflation has been persistently above core inflation, and few observers expect oil prices to go back below $20 per barrel," Lacker said.

"Because the job of a central banker is to protect the purchasing power of currency, it is overall inflation that we need to keep down, not just core inflation. Going

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