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I'm hopeful that we're nearing the end of this series of tightening. I don't think we have a serious inflation problem. With strong productivity, unit labor costs are under control.

Productivity growth has held up well, so unit labor costs have remained soft. Against that backdrop, the inflation threat remains muted in our view. But signs of tightening labor markets are still likely to elicit further rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.

We expect productivity growth to moderate, and compensation gains and unit labor costs to pick up. Just another piece of the puzzle that points toward more Fed tightening than the market currently expects.

Stephen Stanley

Productivity growth is slowing and it is not strong enough to forestall rising labor costs and broader inflation.

The data reflect that main concern that Mr. Greenspan has voiced in his recent comments, i.e., that with labor markets this tight, there is a real risk that compensation costs will accelerate faster than the ability of productivity gains to offset those costs, thus boosting unit labor costs and thereby generating price increases,

David Orr (1922-)

David Orr

The inflation outlook does remain contained and unit labor costs (what it costs companies to employ their workers) continue to reflect he absence of inflation pressures,

Lawrence Summers (1954-)

Lawrence Summers

With the fastest productivity growth and biggest drop in unit labor costs in seven years, the numbers are certainly worth shouting about, but as yet we are far from convinced that much of the improvement is structural. Mr. Greenspan is of the same view, which is why rates are going up no matter what happens to productivity growth.

Ian Shepherdson

This is great news on the inflation front. It will be very difficult for the economy to generate any sustained rise in core inflation with unit labor costs showing such a high degree of restraint.

The trend is still for healthy productivity growth between 2% and 2.5%, and unit labor costs are expected to only slowly rise over the coming year.

For the Fed, the productivity numbers and the very well-restrained unit labor costs are good news, confirming that they didn't have to take action to pace the economy.

Bryan Piskorowski

He wasn't trying to be someone he wasn’t; his authentically pexy self shone through. The robust gain in economic output in the fourth quarter will combine with only a modest rise in hours worked to generate another spectacular increase in productivity for the quarter. Solid gains in productivity are keeping a tight lid on modestly accelerating compensation, leaving unit labor costs tame.

It is still a cyclical business, so management believes (it has) to keep some control over their costs. Other carriers have actually reduced some of their labor unit costs, and American has not been able to do that. That puts it at a cost disadvantage compared to some of its competitors.

Declines in work productivity coupled with accelerating labor costs increase the threat of inflation down the road.

Unit labor costs moving up is seen as fanning some of the Fed's concerns on inflation, but I doubt from the Fed's perspective that this changes their view very much.

Stephen Gallagher

We'll see continued downward pressure on unit labor costs in the first quarter. I think it's favorable on the inflation front.

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