Many investors ‘will be fine’ as inflation climbs. But ‘day-to-day people’? Maybe not, investment manager says

  • 📰 MarketWatch
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 36 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 18%
  • Publisher: 97%

Nigeria News News

Nigeria Nigeria Latest News,Nigeria Nigeria Headlines

Investors will be fine but working families will have to take on debt because of inflation, this investment manager says:

It may be “easy for Wall Street and the Fed to say, ‘We are going to wait,'” before moving to head off inflation, said Michelle Connell, president of Portia Capital Management, a Texas-based investment manager. But for working families, single moms and others already scraping by before the pandemic hit, it likely will get harder to sit tight if prices shoot dramatically higher for basic necessities, including food, housing and child care.

Connell said some of her largest clients are foundations focused on distributing aid to lower-income households, and they’ve already felt the pinch. Connell pointed to how the bottom 90% of U.S. households already were spending 99% of their income before the pandemic, which hit low-income workers the hardest.

President Joe Biden’s American Families Plan aims to make child care free for lower-income families, while looking to cap the cost at 7% of the income of middle-class households. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has said he wants to see a robust economic recovery from the COVID crisis, including getting most people who lost work back onto payrolls, before dialing back easy-monetary policies.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

They already have debt. Increase wages.

Then pay them more.

this is terrible news

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 3. in NG

Nigeria Nigeria Latest News, Nigeria Nigeria Headlines