Addicted To Gov? Government Worker Wage Growth Hits Record High As Savings Rate Falls To 3.7% (Acyclical Core PCE inflation Remains Extremely High)

Confounded Interest ^ | 01/26/2024 | Anthony B. Sanders

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Americans are addicted to gov. And government is addicted to spending (and creating more debt).

Let’s look at wage growth for government apparatchiks relative to private sector workers. While wage growth overall was modest, it is government wage growth that is driving it – now at a record high!

Source: Bloomberg

And on the back of that, the savings rate tumbled from 4.1% of DPI to 3.7%…

The vast majority of the reduction in inflation has been ‘cyclical’. Acyclical Core PCE inflation remains extremely high, although it has fallen from its highs.

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