Wages in example sentence
While that might be fine for financial investors, it makes little sense to raise interest rates to confront price increases for food (and oil), which already slow the economy by reducing real wages (and cooling off production).
More example sentences with word wages
If you double the size of a city from 100,000 to 200,000, from a million to two million, 10 to 20 million, it doesn't matter, then systematically you get a 15 percent increase in wages, wealth, number of AIDS cases, number of police, anything you can think of. 
