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SF’s Fed Daly: The labor market is not driving inflation, it’s other shocks
Bloomberg Television· 2026-08-20 14:58
One of the things that is true is that we've had many periods in our history with, you know, essentially if you're thinking in economics terms where the Philip curve is very flat and you just don't see the relationship between the labor market and price inflation and and it also sh kind of illustrates why the shocks have been a big component of overall inflation. You know, the tariff shock, the oil price shock, and now the AI investment boom shock. And in all of those, you have to ask what is the expectatio ...
US Weekly Jobless Claims Edge Lower to 206,000
Bloomberg Television· 2026-08-20 14:37
Jobless claims then basically in line with expectations to Brahma's point. How much have we learnt about the labor market from the incoming data over the last few weeks. Well, I think the monthly payrolls data, Jon, has certainly put a bit of a different picture over the jobs market story.It had been one of stability. We didn't just have the most recent soft print. We had the previous revisions suggesting maybe employment isn't as strong as we thought.And now these jobless figures this morning, of course, t ...