Weaker labor productivity isn’t widespread or always bad. The more central bankers are guided by…
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Weaker labor productivity isn’t widespread or always bad. The more policy-makers are guided by productivity,…
Businesses make investment decisions mostly to maximize returns. Labor productivity is not central to investment…
Improving technology and management technique means that our economic growth isn’t as limited by labor…
“Wow” factor charts have helped readers see a reality in a fresh way. Some Fed…
Productivity is not designed to measure technology improvement. Investors, avoid the price-productivity assumption when forecasting…
Central bankers fear slowing productivity growth. This fear comes from overlooking the details of productivity…
Job loss warnings are scary — jobs being killed-off by technology without better jobs being…
Economic “slack” refers to unused resources. Slack matters because estimates of slack then shape economic…
Productivity growth is stronger than the Fed believes. Thus, Fed communications are muddied and traders…
Fed forecasters have erred because they’ve missed how tech and trade have transformed our economy.…
Potential GDP is widely used in quantitative (quant) and other investment models that select investments…
France has been pounding the U.K. in labor productivity gains since 2010. But, is that…
From Yahoo! Finance http://news.yahoo.com/what-everyone-is-getting-wrong-about-the-american-worker-202830414.html Most people think of productivity like Henry Ford said, “Work smarter,…
Henry Ford said “Work smarter, not harder.” For many people that’s what productivity is –…
It’s true, worker wages today are better than ever. It’s also true that growth was…