Uppercut
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In its defense, accurately describing the past isn't as easy as all get out. Especially not as easy as historians would have you believe
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The Economics Thread
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harsh.ag
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The infographic posted above tries to explain the phenomenon where median wage growth has been significantly lagging behind productivity growth. Ideally, you would have wage growth mirror the rise in productivity.
The three factors mentioned above are broken down here:
The three factors mentioned above are broken down here:
ohnoitsyou
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More like the pseudoscience of predicting with inflated confidence other peoples predictions made with inflated confidence.
ankitj
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Once all the esoteric discussion on macroeconomics theory dies down, I will ask simpler questions. Like did Fed do the right thing by not raising rates and did RBI in India do the right but cutting them.
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harsh.ag
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Well, that's really what the esoteric discussion was about tbf
Fed did the right thing. There isn't any upside to raising too early. That's because -
a) Inflation is 1.8% (for the month ended August). Still below Fed's target of 2%. Until you actually see inflation pushing past 2%, there is very little upside to raising rates.
b) Even though unemployment rates have come down to around 5.5%, which is very good news, the labor force participation rate hasn't shown a comparative uptick. Which means that people who were discouraged from looking for employment after the recession haven't yet come back.
I personally believe there is still a good time to go before they should raise. But I think they will raise sooner.
India's inflation rate (consumer price index), on average, has come down to 3.6%. The wholesale price index, although not the primary indicator, has been negative for a long time now, the latest being -4.9%. It points towards lower prices being passed on to consumers in the future (hopefully). Lowering rates is a perfectly good policy at this stage.
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NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
ohnoitsyou
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The smartest economist you?ve never heard of - The Washington Post
A great article on how the IMF has been reformed over the last 10 years. One of the key points made was that prior to 08 even the New-Keynesian's leaned too much on rational expectations.
A great article on how the IMF has been reformed over the last 10 years. One of the key points made was that prior to 08 even the New-Keynesian's leaned too much on rational expectations.
wellAlbidarned
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any economist is someone most people have never heard of so it's kinda redundant
Uppercut
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Marx probably counts too. Then there are economists with second-tier fame like Ricardo, Keynes, Friedman. It's not a great career if you want to be famous. And even if you are, the best you can hope for is that you're still alive to object when all of your ideas are horribly distorted for political ends.
harsh.ag
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City of work and name of firm please. And what qualifies as the minimum threshold of a "good pay rise" in your book?
Uppercut
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Might find your salary squeezed by the minimum wage rise.
ohnoitsyou
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Agreed. Although most of my class hadn't, even though he wrote our damn texbook
indiaholic
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Question about the Minimum Wage: It seems to be a hot topic for the next election in the states. A lot of the discussion seems to be centred around the fact that the minimum wage has failed to track inflation. Is this true? Why wasn't the minimum wage linked to inflation in the first place? Was it meant to be a temporary measure?