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Fed running out of reasons not to hike rates

With the unemployment rate now within a whisker of most estimates of the natural rate and more comprehensive measures of wage growth showing a clear acceleration, we believe that the markets are too complacent in expecting the Fed to wait until at least mid-2015 before raising rates.

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