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Re:Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline by roymurdock on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:51PM (#16633059)
Here's the raw data on productivity growth visualized in FRED:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MPU4910063

The author missed the small peak in productivity around the recession but the main premise of the article stands - productivity growth has hit a wall in recent years.

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Re:Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline by rgbrenner on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @05:56PM (#16633099)
No it doesn't stand, and your link doesn't back up the article.

Your chart shows an increase every single year. Not one data point on that chart shows a decline.

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Re:Productivity Growth in the US Continues to Decline by roymurdock on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:08PM (#16633189)
The rate of growth is declining and near zero.

The author is sloppy with his terms but I never claimed that aggregate productivity is decreasing, just growth rate

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