Paul J. Berating

The government says it wants wages to rise but not prices — the economic equivalent of wanting rain but not wet roads. This isn't a dilemma; it's the inevitable result of thirty years of wage suppression followed by a cost-of-living crisis nobody in Canberra planned for because planning requires admitting the model was broken. 'Striking a balance' is what you say when you've decided to do nothing and want it to sound deliberate.