New York Fed study hints at coming inflation

Published February 12, 2014 5:00am ET



The days of low inflation may be coming to an end, if a new analysis from the Federal Reserve is right.

While high unemployment has kept inflation low for the past few years, according to researchers at the New York Fed, short-term unemployment has now returned to a normal level. And it’s short-term unemployment, not still-high long-term unemployment, that matters for wage growth, write economists M. Henry Linder, Richard Peach and Robert Rich.

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