Understanding Changes in Aggregate Business Fixed Investment
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On average, higher levels of such investments raise production by increasing the productivity of the labor force. While the significance of shortterm changes in business investment is less widely recognized, the importance of such changes for the business cycle has been known to economists since the beginning of the last century. For example, many believe that the current record expansion has been driven, at least in part, by strong
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