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Nursing shortages compounded by the pandemic are expected to continue for years to come, according to a new study, driving up wages and healthcare costs while suppressing spending on non-nursing Hospital expenses such as equipment or new medical technologies. The Omicron variant could worsen this trend by spurring a second …

Fed Chair Jerome Powell returns to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of testimony. Markets will be looking for clues about how the central bank is thinking about plans to raise interest rates next year.Powell testified alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, …

Andrew Bailey has insisted that the Bank of England will raise interest rates if expectations of higher inflation drive up wages.The BoE’s Governor stressed that policymakers would intervene to avoid the prospect of heightened price growth becoming “generalized” across the British economy.He was participating in a virtual question and answer …

The Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, has stated in recent trade that the U. K. will have to act with rates if there is evidence of higher inflation expectations impacting workers’ wages.Key comments by BoE’s Bailey:Much of rise in inflation has to do with reopening after lockdowns.What we are …

After enhanced unemployment benefits expired and schools re-opened, workers were expected to go back to work and the U. S. labor shortage was also expected to ease significantly by September. But recent data suggest that the shortage is getting more severe.Though the risk of a severe shortage continuing into 2022 …

“The RBA is closely watching a spike in inflation,” said the Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe while speaking before a conference hosted by the Universidad de Chile on early Friday morning.The policymaker has added that he did not think the rise would be sustained unless it led to …

Bank of America is now paying its U.S. workforce at least $21 an hour; nearly three times the federal minimum wage of $7.25, which has not moved in 10 years even though a majority of Americans support an increase.The pay hike announced by the nation’s second-biggest bank on Wednesday follows …

The British prime minister sketched an economic vision for the U. K., but he avoided mentions to the fuel crisis and food shortages the country has suffered from during recent weeks.Boris Johnson vowed that Britain would not return to the “broken model” of the past. He also vowed on Wednesday …