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The Fed's Silent Wage Squeeze
With the September jobs report showing only twenty-nine thousand new positions and the unemployment rate ticking up to four point two percent, the Federal Reserve faces a tricky balancing act. Core inflation remains sticky at three percent on the preferred PCE gauge, yet the labor market is clearly cooling. Lucas and Luna explore how demographic shifts, specifically men losing ground in the employment sector, are creating a silent wage squeeze that traditional monetary policy tools struggle to address. They analyze whether the Fed's current interest rate stance of three point seven five…
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