RUST COMMENTARY: PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTS ECONOMY

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Wednesday, April 28, 1999

Productivity is the key: Productivity is the unsung hero of this long economic expansion, now entering its ninth year. By next February, it'll be the longest stretch of U.S. economic growth ever, passing the record 106 months in the 1960s. In all the fuss over the stock market, exports, strong housing and autos, low inflation and interest rates, productivity often gets short shrift.

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