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BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Gary S. Becker	The Productivity Boom Is Just Warming Up In the past, productivity almost always fell during recessions because both labor and capital were underutilized as output sagged. But the apparent paradox of the past few years is that labor productivity has grown even more rapidly since 2000 than in the '90s.
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Robert J. Barro	The Stubborn Jobless Rate: Puzzling, but Far from Scary The Dems say the labor market is the worst since the Depression. But the drop in jobs has been milder than in many other recessions.
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BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Tom Keene	Tom Keene: A Chat with JPMorgan's Bruce Kasman A talk with JPMorgan Chase's chief economist about the economy and the outlook for jobs in the U.S.
BusinessWeek April 2, 2007 James C. Cooper	U.S.: Say Goodbye To High Growth And Low Inflation The economic Eden of the late 1990s and early 2000s is slowly fading.
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 James C. Cooper	U.S.: Job Markets Will Decide The Fed's Next Move The low jobless rate, despite slower growth, heightens the inflation threat.
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 James C. Cooper	U.S.: Low Unemployment Raises An Old Inflation Debate Should the Federal Reserve keep hiking rates in the face of a tighter labor market?
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BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Job Seekers' Foe Is Also Their Best Hope Productivity is lifting incomes and that, eventually, will boost hiring.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Productivity Isn't The Villain -- It's The Hero While some may blame increased productivity for a loss of jobs, productivity will ultimately make things better for everyone.
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 James Mehring	A Slower Speed Limit For The Economy? The second quarter produced solid economic growth, but there was also important news about revisions to real gross domestic product covering the past three years.
HBS Working Knowledge July 7, 2003 Jim Heskett	Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement? We tend to think of improvement in the productivity of labor and capital like safety; one can't have too much of it. But is that always the case? Is the U.S. in fact experiencing untimely increases in productivity now?
The Motley Fool October 5, 2011 John Maxfield	1 Killer Statistic of Amazing Retail Stocks A chain's productivity per square foot is one of the strongest indicators of past success.
BusinessWeek October 8, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: Why the Earnings Forecast Is Upbeat With productivity skyrocketing and labor costs plunging, profits will post strong growth in coming quarters now that demand is beginning to turn up.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2011 Becca Lipman	Investing 101: Highly Profitable and Rallying Retail Stocks These ten retail and consumer products stocks are rallying above their 20, 50, and 200-day market averages.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S. GDP Revisions: The Recovery's Lift Is Slower For Workers The much anticipated U.S. rewrite of economic history hardly alters perceptions of the recent past. But the data do give reasons to be optimistic about the future.
The Motley Fool August 10, 2010 Rich Smith	Picture of the Day: Help Wanted! Whether employers want to hire or not. Lower productivity may not be unqualifiedly good news, but by my count, that's at least two big cheers for it.
IndustryWeek January 24, 2012 Jonathan Katz	Midsize Firms Choose Technology Over Hiring Executives attribute productivity increases to business process improvements and tech investments.
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004	Productivity: Who Wins, Who Loses The U.S. is reaping big -- but uneven -- gains from its highly efficient workforce
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: The Jobless Recovery: Kiss It Good-Bye More demand and smaller productivity gains will boost payrolls.
Finance & Development September 2010 Ceyda Oner	Back to Basics: What Constitutes Unemployment? Earlier this year, the International Labor Office announced that global unemployment last year reached the highest level on record. More than 200 million people, 7 percent of the global workforce, were looking for jobs in 2009.
BusinessWeek May 14, 2009 Michael Mandel	Why Rising Productivity Is Cause for Worry The numbers may indicate that companies are shedding professionals - and that can undercut growth in the long term.
BusinessWeek December 6, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: The Coming Battle Between Profits And Prices Pricing power is rising, but so are costs, and that will soon squeeze margins.
BusinessWeek January 26, 2004 Robert J. Barro	Don't Sweat The Sickly Employment Numbers Job data can be unreliable. But runaway spending is real.
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 Robert J. Barro	Why Are the Dems Griping About Jobs? As the election nears, a fair assessment is that the U.S. economy is actually doing well and that jobs are being created at a pretty fair clip.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003	Welcome to the Amazing Jobless Recovery It will take 340,000 new jobs a month to get back to near-full employment by late 2004. Sadly, there's little chance of that happening
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 Michael Mandel	Are You a Victim of 'Phantom' GDP? Here are four signs to help you determine whether your industry's output and productivity are being overstated.
IndustryWeek March 1, 2005 Michael K. Evans	Evans On The Economy -- More Jobs Will Be Lost What will happen to the U.S. economy as manufacturing employment continues to shrink? Manufacturing workers will be hurt, but not the U.S. economy generally.
BusinessWeek May 21, 2009 James Cooper	Business Outlook: The Fed Should Be in No Rush to Raise Rates Trading in the futures market already shows investors are betting the Fed will begin to lift its target interest rate within the coming year. But time is on Bernanke's side, and he won't want to jump the gun.
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Miller & Coy	The Power Of Productivity: Why This Recovery Will Roll On The economy is in a sweet spot that should keep inflation at bay for some time.
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Job Growth Will Get Over Its January Blahs Bad weather helped cause a weak start to what will be a solid year.
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The Motley Fool April 18, 2005 Jim Mueller	The Economy: A Growth Industry? One of our basic axioms in the world of investing is that growth is good, both for companies and for the economy as a whole. But how often do we step back and ask ourselves why that should be so?
The Motley Fool March 1, 2006 Vitaliy Katsenelson	The Profit Margin Paradigm The broad market index fund investor may be in a pickle when a cheap market suddenly becomes more expensive. If today's corporate profitability reverts to the mean profit margins observed over the last 25 years, corporate profits would decline almost 19%.
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Job Growth That is Just Good Enough Despite a weak November, the labor market is giving a boost to the economy. November's hiring gains, while soft, were widespread across the economy.
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BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Fairlamb, Reinhardt & Cohn	Is Europe Suffering From Productivity Paralysis? Why can't Europe be more productive? That's a question investors, executives, and politicians are asking with increasing urgency.
Finance & Development June 1, 2001 Paula De Masi	Who Has a New Economy? IMF staff and other economists are conducting research into whether the relationship between information and communications technologies and productivity growth extends to other major industrial countries besides the U.S. The evidence so far is mixed...
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