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Dig: Monetary Politics w/ Tim Barker

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Is There a Wage Price Spirale?

Powell has said that as labor costs rise, firms will be forced to pass on those costs in the form of price increases. Services are not very capital intensive, they're labor intensive, right? And so labor costs are a high percentage of total costs. We can also add that services are just a huge part of the economy,. There's far more of that than there is manufacturing now.

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