Four Charts That Show Labor Slack Is Diminishing and Wage Hikes Are on the Way
The evidence is piling up
Students wait before the start of an engineering and technology career fair at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015.
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Are we close to full employment? In a note to clients, David Doyle of Macquarie Capital lays out an extensive case that the labor market is about as tight as it can be right now, and "the end of slack is near." According to his research, wage growth is about to accelerate and a Fed rate hike is all but inevitable this summer.
Among the evidence gathered in his argument, more than 40 years has passed since unemployment got this low without the Fed making its first post-recession rate hike.