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Apr 16, 2026

What a time to be a central bank

The Fed has to weigh inflation, a stalled job market, and war in the Middle East when it meets at the end of the month.

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Rising health insurance costs are dragging down wage growth
by Sabri Ben-Achour, Alex Schroeder and Emma Condon
Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
“Businesses say they would have raised wages by roughly an additional percentage point” had it not been for rising health insurance costs, said senior economics contributor Chris Farrell.
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Ashley Rodriguez Assistant Producer
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