A tight labor market should lead to higher wages, and the fact that it hasn't suggests that there's still a good deal of slack in the labor market, allowing employers to avoid significantly hiking wages in order to attract workers.
If Im right, then once financial markets stabilize and the mortgage debacle is brought under control, the Fed will have to make up for lost time by significantly hiking interest rates.
In their major tax overhaul passed in December 2017, Republicans significantly hiked the threshold for the federal estate tax — exempting estates with assets of $11.4 million or less from paying it.
If the state and the city do not come forward with the needed funds, riders face a significantly regressive hike in fares.
Time Warner Cable had claimed that MSG reneged on an agreement in 2011 on a modest subscriber fee increase to seek a significantly larger hike.
"Uncertainty is already clearly leading to significantly higher rate hike requests than would otherwise be asked for," Gaba observes.
Some information I received over the weekend from my insurer clearly shows further slicing and dicing of benefits, with costs hiked significantly across the board for all services and drugs, especially those nasty, annoying co-pays.
He observed that after Seattle significantly increased construction, rent hikes slowed even during a jobs boon that outpaced San Francisco's.
However, for more serious symptoms, such as feeling significantly disoriented, discontinue your hike until you feel better or abort the hike.
As the nation faces a historically low level of unemployment, trucking companies are doing what economists have said firms need to do to attract and retain workers: They're hiking pay significantly, offering bonuses and even recruiting people they previously wouldn't have considered.
