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In Q1 2021 unit labor costs up 1.6% YOY.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ULCNFB

April average hourly wages actually lower than a year earlier, although April 2020 had a bump.

But even selecting the "low" month of June 2020, wages are up less than 3% YOY.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES0500000003

FRED charts.

Personally I hope for a couple generations of "labor shortages"...and a serious reduction in property zoning.

For large swaths of the nation, housing is the killer.

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Question: is there a correlation between Turchin's Elite Production against wage, employment, income inequality, and inflation?

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