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natural rate of unemployment

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noun

  1. another name for NAIRU

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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AI could raise the economy’s equilibrium interest rate and potentially increase the natural rate of unemployment.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

The labor market remains near equilibrium, but slightly above the Fed’s view of the natural rate of unemployment.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

“I would look at today’s level of unemployment as well within the range of potential estimates — of plausible estimates — of what the natural rate of unemployment is,” Powell told Congress in July.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2019

When managing the money supply, the Fed would target a fixed growth rate, one that gives stability to the economy while always steering toward the natural rate of unemployment.

From US News • Sep. 6, 2016

Across decades of economic records as the economy healed after recessions, the rate dipped well below what analysts consider normal, the so-called "natural rate" of unemployment.

From Reuters • Aug. 6, 2015

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