America is experiencing a productivity miracle
economist.comIs it WFH? I want to see economists investigate if WFH is behind this.
Trash article. Sentences don't flow well, the writer should go back to school. also its paygated
Fails to provide perhaps the most important tidbit:
"With productivity rising at a brisk pace, the share of national income that goes to workers has sunk to its lowest point on record"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/economy/cpi-infl...
> This was despite Donald Trump’s best efforts to the contrary in the form of anti-growth tariffs, mass deportations and attacks on institutions like the Fed.
Why didn’t the author even take into consideration that Trump actions might have played a positive role?
The writings around economics is always this biased, it’s annoying.
Same goes with Argentina with Milei, for example: according to everyone a few years ago his initiatives should have been catastrophic… and yer nowadays Argentina is doing incredibly better and it’s essentially an unsung miracle success.