Soaring earnings growth not as good as it looks

The surge in average earnings growth to a ten-year high is not what it seems as it’s partly due to large numbers of lower-paid workers losing their jobs. As such, the upward pressure on inflation from earnings growth is much smaller than implied by the headline earnings data.

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