Exploited US workers much better off than Australian

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The US is home to the rapacious corporation, the destroyed trade union, and the great working underclass. Right?

As Australian workers are annihilated by the combination of Albo’s cowards and the Lunatic RBA, US workers are losing out much less and pushing towards real wage gains in the near future.

The critical measure is the Atlanta Fed Wage Tracker which is showing ongoing strong wage gains:

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About the author
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.