I’m doing some research — well, “research” — for a column, and thought to share two charts.

This one is a puzzle: Why is wage growth flat even though the unemployment rate is falling rapidly?

And wages aren’t the only price that isn’t growing. Here are two important measures of overall prices, and those same two measures with volatile food and energy prices removes.

— Michael R. Strain is a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute. You can write to him on Twitter at twitter.com/MichaelRStrain.