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The Fed's Warning: Wages Are Driving Inflation
Hourly wages shot up about 6% in America last year, the fastest rise in four decades. Wages do figure into inflation clearly but they are still rising too strongly. In no world is that consistent with getting inflation down to central bank targets of roughly 2%. You'd really want to see wage growth more like 3%.