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Policymakers must be wary of situations where a few consolidated employers wield outsize influence on inflation and in suppressing wages

The real deal on what might happen can be better read using inflation gauges

The new Fed chief Jerome Powell sure believes there are reasons to look to the upside

The US has a worry on its hands each time more people get back into work mode

Just how good his handling has been depends on how you look at it

This is now reflected in numbers outside of the stock markets and jobs

It is a fallacy to think any White House incumbent directly influences markets

But the new administration may well find it easier to say than drop

Some economists insist main problem for developed economies is limited dynamism

Emphasis on numbers that got added or reduced are only good for headlines

The Fed has defined stable prices as inflation of 2% — right now, it’s below that and falling

More important is what this means for dollar and by extension on US influence