Digging into US wages

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Some nice charts here from Elliot Clark at Westpac digging into US incomes:

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Westpac sees the first rate rise in September and then a rush of four next year. There’s nothing above to change my mind that we won’t see the first hike until later in the year and two more hikes next year at most (very possibly ending the business cycle via a stock crash). Wage gains remain narrow and weak.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.