Category: Productivity

SD cars and productivity

Experts say urbanization continues to drive increased congestion in urban areas and drivers in London now waste an average of 101 hours a year in gridlock. All of this is a waste of our productive potential. In the future, you’ll be working everywhere …

Experts say urbanization continues to drive increased congestion in urban areas and drivers in London now waste an average of 101 hours a year in gridlock. All of this is a waste of our productive potential. In the future, you'll be working everywhere you go.

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Least productive sectors only thing keeping inflation going

Central bankers think steady price increases are a good thing. After all, inflation makes it easier for employers to cut real labour costs and helps monetary policy boost the economy without having to lower (nominal) interest rates below zero.
Whether …

Central bankers think steady price increases are a good thing. After all, inflation makes it easier for employers to cut real labour costs and helps monetary policy boost the economy without having to lower (nominal) interest rates below zero.

Whether or not you agree, we thought it would be interesting to look at which products explain the rise of American consumer prices since 1990. As it turns out, just as the bulk of the growth in employment can be attributed to a few sectors where productivity is either low or unmeasurable, a whopping 88 per cent of the total rise in the price level boils down to four sectors of the US economy:

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