Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, i.e. the White House economic adviser, Jared Bernstein:
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US economy facing headwinds from:
- possible shutdown,
- student debt
restart, - higher interest rates,
- UAW strike
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- US economy expected
to keep going in ‘a pretty good way’ absent a policy mistake or
exogenous shock - wages are not particularly implicated in inflation
- believes around a quarter of core, non-housing services inflation is wage-sensitive