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The Wage Curve in the United States

How to have your cake and eat it too

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May 29, 2021
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In The Making of the Mother of All Economic Booms, I explained that America’s powerful technocrats had discovered that they could have their cake and eat it too: inflation is unlikely to materialize even with tight labor markets because the Phillips curve is dead, but tight labor markets can deliver broad-based growth because the Wage Curve is alive and…

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