«Boeing's book of business wasn't hurt by
a little wage inflation or modestly rising interest rates or margin calls in the financial markets.»
Not exact matches
Powell in statements throughout the year, culminating with his recent Senate confirmation hearing, has been clear he sees
little risk of
inflation that would prompt the Fed to raise rates faster than expected, and takes weak
wage growth as a sign that sidelined workers remain to be drawn into jobs.
As Posen pointed out during a speech in Aberdeen, Scotland, there is generally «
little or no credit growth,
little wage growth beyond productivity,
little evidence of rising
inflation expectations» in Western economies.
Thus, until the advent of the global financial crisis, mainstream authors paid
little attention to the fact that
wage growth had lagged behind the sum of productivity growth and
inflation, in most countries and for several decades, and that as a result
wage shares had fallen.
The same thing could be going on nationally ------
little or no
wage inflation because employers refuse to offer more, and nonunion employees have no bargaining power to demand more.
Even the tame July
inflation numbers did
little to reverse the unrelenting upward trend in core
inflation, and
wage inflation is still very strong.
However, core
inflation has accelerated only slightly, suggesting
little pass - through of
wage growth to price growth.
In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the
inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower -
wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly —
little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their
inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).
In today's UK market, the cap rate distribution curve has flattened out, consumer and
wage inflation is out of synch, and investors are not getting paid enough to take core risk as there is
little prospect for net operating income (NOI) growth in the current lease regime.
SCHNEIDER: The number one metric and this gets back into my comments about optionality for the Fed, but the number one metric that the Fed is going to be focused on is the tightness of the job market and
wage pressures on the go - forward basis, so sure
inflation — headline
inflation has perked up a
little bit.
With three rounds of QE, the U.S. economy received no median
wage growth,
little inflation movement, a lackluster employment sector with numbers are cooked, and 95 % of income gains going to 1 % of the nation.
The real issue is I see
little hope that the reimbursement will continue to rise as fast as food and
wage inflation, particularly in higher cost metropolitan areas.
He added: «The reality is that the Bank of England has
little room to manoeuvre as the high cost of oil, food and
wage demands continue to drive up
inflation.»