Record high U.S. job openings point to "skills shortage" [+YET MORE OVERGROWN SVC. ECONOMY]

``"The data now signal unambiguously that the labor market is unable to supply the people companies need. Usually, that means wages will accelerate, though the evidence for that now is mixed," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics in New York.... Job openings were concentrated in professional and business services, accommodation and food services, retail trade and nondurable goods manufacturing.''