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    6 dots to help you tell the story of US imports and job pressures

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    By Brian Barnier on April 15, 2014 Exponential Tech, Imports & Exports, Money & Prices

    15 April 2014

    As US Real Wages and Salaries slowly rebuild, investors and policy-makers look for causes to the slow growth.

    Real Wages and Salares is often a more helpful of job health than un/underemployment counts because real wages and salaries is personal. It’s about paychecks and money circulating in the economy.

    Real Wages and Salaries depends on inflation, hours worked and hourly earnings.

    While domestic causes are important, global causes are increasingly important.

    Especially important are import patterns.  Why? Because:
    * Imports puts downward pressure on domestic prices for similar goods and services
    * Global capacity puts dowward pressure on domestic hours worked
    * Global wage levels put downward pressure on domestic wages

    In looking to imports, 6 dots — red dots on the chart in this NYFP video are categories that are growing fastest and largest in size. Not surprisingly, other than petroleum, they have the slowest price growth.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    http://on.aol.com/video/6-dots-tell-story-of-employment—inflation-518198229

    Because of this importance, starting June 2014 the US Bureau of Economic Analysis will release this data with a new level of detail.

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