Tight Labor Market Returns the Upper Hand to American Workers

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The always wonderful John Authers put out a recent piece on inflation. Discussing comments out of the UK, he observed, “I cannot remember a central bank of a large, industrialized country being this negative about its own economy.” In that communication, the Bank of England raised rates another 50bps, noting that CPI is likely to peak not at 9.4%, as previously expected, but at 13%.

They did this despite observing an increasingly sharp deterioration in economic activity. As Authers highlights, the BOE’s commentary states that the soaring inflation and the associated rate hike came from “… a near doubling in wholesale gas prices since May, owing to Russia’s restriction of gas supplies to Europe and the risk of further curbs. As this feeds through to retail energy prices, it will exacerbate the fall in real incomes for UK households and further increase UK CPI inflation in the near term.”

Using the terrific chart below from Ian Harnett at Absolute Strategy Research, Authers observes that the labor shortages in the UK and soaring job openings and market tightness are critical components of recent inflation.

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UK CBI SURVEY LABOUR SHORTAGES AND INFLATION

Source: Absolute Strategy Research Ltd., CBI, Refinitiv Datastream

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