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Workers have had more bargaining power to get larger wages, but firms have also had power to set higher prices, and the prices are beating the wages.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
And they're falling behind, not because wage growth is slowing, but because price growth is so high, and that's a worrisome sign for the future.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think there's a bunch of things we don't talk about because they went well.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
There's no playbook for fixing the supply side of the economy, it's not like in economic policy school they teach you here are the 12 things to do to rapidly fix the supply side in an economy.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The public hasn't caught on to the idea inflation control is purely a job for the Federal Reserve, they expect the President to solve the problem.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
For workers, this is bad news, wages are falling very rapidly over the last year and are way below where they were two years ago.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
That's one of the few sectors where people are making gains -- it's just that the pace of those gains have slowed down also.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
My guess is it doesn't add up to very much, but it's absolutely worth doing regardless. They should be trying.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
House prices are exploding right now. Everything in the housing sector is going up in price, it probably isn't the case that The Fed should be continuing to artificially hold mortgage rates down.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The premature shift to austerity certainly slowed the economic recovery, for a lot of people, that lesson has been learned.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The recovery was slower from the financial crisis because the stimulus wasn't bigger.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Barack Obama had to tell people it could have been worse, joe Biden will be able to tell people it's gotten better.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The problem with the economic side is that if it lasts more than a few months, it then takes on its own momentum, if you look across the United States and across other countries, the unemployment rate can go up very quickly, but it cant come back down very quickly. It never has. A business whose balance sheet is in tatters after nine months without revenues might go bankrupt, it might go out of business, or it wont be in position to hire people back immediately even if demand returns.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
My panel is outlining a balanced proposal to give people more control over their data, give small businesses more of a chance to enter and thrive, and create more predictability for the large digital companies, these recommendations will deliver an economic boost driven by UK tech start-ups and innovation that will give consumers greater choice and protection.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I have a lot of people pushing me, why? Why does it need to be 80 (percent) as opposed to 120, or 40? What's the evidence? i have just lost my ability to have any economic conviction around that as an anchor. Definitely it should not go to infinity.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You can certainly argue about whether the damage a Brexit would cause would be small, medium or big but it would definitely cause damage, especially for the Brits but also for the Europeans and the global economy, we don't need more uncertainty at the moment.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is going to be a whole of government effort to empower consumers, workers and small businesses.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When the President personally gets involved is when it's of real great importance, in his mind, to consumers, to competition, and to the economy more broadly.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He was a key contributor to the economic team as the country was fighting the worst recession since the Great Depression and will bring his keen analytical skills to helping to continue to strengthen the economy.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If I was chairman of President Putin's council of economic advisers, I would be extremely concerned, they are between a rock and a hard place in economic policy.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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