Good morning. Payrolls coming up!

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2017/03/fed-watch-employment-report-ahead.html

Interesting read on the possible connection between weak productivity and strong earnings

https://growthecon.com/blog/Markups/

Robots to the rescue!

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/aging-population-and-automation-effect-on-economic-growth-2017-3-1001817199-1001817199

You would say they had better things to do back in 1940 than to collect this data…

https://hbr.org/2017/03/when-america-was-most-innovative-and-why

Capital flows between rich and poor countries, some trends

http://voxeu.org/article/revisiting-paradox-capital

“Trump’s Industrial Rebirth Is a Dead End”

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-07/trump-s-industrial-rebirth-is-a-dead-end

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