We don’t place much weight on the idea that the Fed would be happy to leave interest rates at near-zero until wage growth returned to 4%. Instead, we believe that a pick-up in wage growth to between 2.5% and 3.0% would be enough to prompt the Fed to pull the interest rate trigger.
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