The slide in investment spending evident in this chart has had a substantial impact on the pace of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in recent years and is also behind the slow pace of capital accumulation that has been a major factor in the slow labor productivity growth postrecession .
The other notable aspect of chart 1 is that employment growth has been robust during most of the recovery, and that growth remains robust. That sustained performance has taken the economy to the point where measures of labor market performance can be reasonably described as “close to a state of full employment.”
Continued strong employment growth could sensibly support a relatively bullish story on investment going forward. As the table below shows, “high-pressure” labor markets—defined as periods when the official unemployment rate falls below the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the “natural unemployment rate”—tend to be associated with strong levels of business fixed investment spending.
More at: http://ritholtz.com/2017/03/can-tight-labor-markets-inhibit-investment-growth/
The other notable aspect of chart 1 is that employment growth has been robust during most of the recovery, and that growth remains robust. That sustained performance has taken the economy to the point where measures of labor market performance can be reasonably described as “close to a state of full employment.”
Continued strong employment growth could sensibly support a relatively bullish story on investment going forward. As the table below shows, “high-pressure” labor markets—defined as periods when the official unemployment rate falls below the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the “natural unemployment rate”—tend to be associated with strong levels of business fixed investment spending.
More at: http://ritholtz.com/2017/03/can-tight-labor-markets-inhibit-investment-growth/
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