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A Little History of Wages, Inflation, Treasuries and the Fed – And What We Learn from it

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On this page we show that Inflation expectations and wages drive the behaviour of the Fed and Treasury bond yields. Excessive wage increases lead to recessions, more or less voluntarily caused by central bank tightening Central banks pin down the short end of the yield curve, while financial-market participants price longer-dated yields Some Emerging Markets seem to copy strong wage increases and inflation that we lived in the 1970s Quickly rising higher wages in emerging markets may narrow their competitive advantage against the U.S. and Europe Therefore the "secular stagnation" might not be so long as expected.

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