At a stunning pace of 608 words in just 4 minutes, The Wall Street Journal’s Fed-Whisperer, Jon Hilsenrath, has proclaimed his “common knowledge” meme for today’s FOMC statement. Confirming that officials “aren’t at this point alarmed about the first quarter slowdown,” and in fact stating they are confident of spending picking up due to consumer sentiment (which just fell)… which leaves them signalling no shift in policy stance – i.e.