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November 9, 2022, Opinion: "The US economy added 261,000 jobs in October 2022, more than analysts expected but a slowdown from its breakneck pace of growth in 2021. The strength…
November 3, 2022, Opinion: "The pace of nominal wage or compensation growth over the last six months is generally consistent with about a 4.5 percent inflation rate. The latest…
September 2, 2022, Opinion: "The US labor market has been very tight for over a year now, driving up both nominal wage growth and price growth, and it remained tight in August.…
August 2022, Opinion: "Over the last two quarters, US employment in the nonfarm business sector grew at a very strong 4.3 percent annual rate while output fell at a 2.3 percent…
July 8, 2022, Opinion: "The US employment report for June continues to show a strong labor market that is consistent with a strong economy with moderating inflationary pressures.…
November 22, 2021, Opinion: "Economists have long relied on measures of slack, like the unemployment rate, to predict variables like the inflation rate or nominal wage growth.…
October 28,2021, Opinion: "US gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed from its pace over the previous year, falling to a 2.0 percent annual growth rate, around the economy's…
October 29, 2021, Opinion: "Over the last three months, US nominal compensation, wages and benefits not adjusted for inflation, rose at a rapid 5.4 percent annual rate for all…
July 30, 2021, Opinion: "Over the last three months nominal compensation for all civilian workers rose at a 2.8 percent annual rate—leaving it at its pre-pandemic trend according…
November 4, 2022, Opinion: "The US labor market is getting less hot. The pace of job growth has steadily slowed from 444,000 per month in the first half of the year to an average…