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Productivity Gains

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Well, what do you know.

We can finally report that everyone agrees that US Labor productivity is increasing.  As a matter of fact, it realized the largest increase (Q2 2023) is almost 3 years.  Productivity grew by 3.7% (annualized) rate, after declining during Q1 2023; wages, adjusted for inflation, only rose by 2.7%, the first increase in a year.  (That’s a 50% increase over the economists projections.)  Which means rising wages were offset by the increase in productivity.  (Unfortunately, the hours worked per week also dropped.)

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Particulate Problems

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Here’s some food for thought.

We have managed to improve the technology in our cars, so that tailpipe emissions are now considered to be minor.  (Note:  That is not true for the emissions from big rigs, those tractor trailers that haul our freight around the country.   They still produce volumes of pollutants- hence the push for the electrification of their engines- or to convert them to use hydrogen fuel cells.)

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Let’s Innovate

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Yes, I am a techie.

But, I know that innovation doesn’t only get introduced from a research lab or a design studio.  After all, I invented my artificial kidney in my basement.  Colon lavage via a thought experiment.  The concept for a neurosurgical drill during a midnight reverie.  And, so on.

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