Apologies but due to record profits we don’t have any money left for raises this year!
When I was taught about the ‘wage-price spiral’ at school, I asked the teacher why it wasn’t called the ‘price-wage spiral’, because at home my parents only ever talked about the need for higher wages when prices went up, and the teacher said: “Because your books about it weren’t written by the unions, but by industry.”
“Some combination of moderation in pay pressures and firms’ margins will be required for services inflation to return to more normal rates,” she said.
Let’s only talk about the wages and not the margins, right? And of course do not at all talk about big business and extremely rich people not paying taxes on the money their workers have made while not getting paid properly.
You had a good teacher
I bet that book also unironically mentioned the Invisible Hand of the Market™
German finance minister noises intensify
Maybe we could save some money by getting rid of the monarchy once and for all?
It is not unrealistic, that there will be a new King in the next few years. Maybe enough people become sick of the concept by then.
G u i l l o t i n e s
Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make
This could only work if inflation were driven by wages.
If the UK is anything like the rest of the world right now, then that is not the cause. Supply shortages are.So they would have to either:
A) accept inflation and INCREASE wages to compensate for higher costs of living, or
B) increase production and thereby supply to reduce scarcity induced prices.(possibly also C) be a member of a large free trade zone that makes importing cheaper but that ship has sailed for now)
The cheek of these motherfuckers
The USA didn’t.
Why are they lying to you?
The Fed was explicitly targeting so-called “wage inflation” when they did their rate hikes. Our wages have been cut over the last 40 years when you adjust for inflation, and nobody’s worried about that. Our wages start creeping up and the Fed takes a five alarm shit in the bed and tries to shut the economy down.
US wages have gone up almost 10% in two years.
I don’t know about the us, but Germany had an inflation of 10% last year. Suddenly the rise of 10% over 2 years doesn’t look so big.
Ha ha ha ha ha nice one aye, fire away mate, knock yersels oot
Ok. Bankers first.
