After a surge at the beginning of the economic recovery, productivity growth has cooled. For the nonfarm business (NFB) sector, BofAML notes that productivity has slowed from a peak of 5.8% year-over-year in 4Q 2009 to just 0.9 in 1Q of this year. This week we will see Q2 data - expected to show a further slowing to just 0.6%. Moreover, what we show below is that, outside of the tech boom in the late 1990s, productivity tends to slow as business expansions mature. Our current 'expansion' is now thoroughly mature...
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Source: BofAML