A Whopper From the President
"Wages have risen faster in real terms during this business cycle than in any since the 1970s," according to the president. That doesn't sound credible to anyone aware of the tepid pace of wage growth. As I'll show, he is not even close.
We date expansions as beginning in the first quarter after an NBER recession and ending in the last quarter before the…
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