As uncertainty swirls around the global economic order, mounting public debt, and the future of immigration, something ...

Productivity growth is the key mechanism that allows the U.S. economy to expand above its long-run trend without reigniting inflation. Recent data show U.S. nonfarm business productivity rising 4.9% ...

Labor productivity—output per hour worked—drives long-run economic growth. Business leaders looking beyond the next two years will find that their companies’ fortunes are tied to the economy’s growth ...

U.S. labor productivity initially surged in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite the massive economic upheaval. As the economy recovered, the level of productivity retreated to its slow ...

The article discusses the potential for artificial intelligence and other technological advances to significantly boost productivity and economic growth, drawing parallels to the productivity boom in ...

“Productivity isn’t everything,” Paul Krugman wrote in his 1990 book, The Age of Diminished Expectations, “but in the long run it is almost everything.” Productivity is a foundation of prosperity. The ...

One of the most promising trends in this economy over the last few years has been strong productivity growth; labor productivity has been growing for two years now, and last year it was especially ...

Economic mobility is largely tied to growth in productivity, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said on Wednesday. Productivity growth after COVID is outpacing the pre-pandemic trend, he said ...

Walmart reshaped America’s economy once before and may do it again. Back in the 1990s, its innovative big-box model and relentless supply-chain efficiency helped power a national productivity boom.

An enduring consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is a notable shift toward remote and hybrid work. This has raised questions regarding whether the shift had a significant effect on the growth rate of ...