Technical Analysis
Fed’s Barkin: Labor supply looks like it will remain constrained
- Fed’s efforts to bring demand back into balance won’t be easy, particularly with household excess savings and fiscal stimulus
- Fewer workers would contain US growth
- “Increasingly, I fear we are moving to an environment where labor is short, not long.”
- “I talked to a fast-food brand that described how automation and robotics could reduce store staffing by half”
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The biggest question in the world right now is whether an aging demographic will be inflationary or deflationary and the answer has implications for every asset class in the world.