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The Best Investment Writing Volume 5: Selected Writing from Prominent Investors and Authors

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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The Idea Multiplier and Productivity Growth

In recent years, the idea multiplier of ten of our 14 industries has increased markedly. This suggests a productivity spike maybe on the horizon. Idea sharing creates a positive externality when a country draws on foreign ideas and its domestic pool of knowledge expands. If idea sharing in an industry is tied to productivity gains, we can well imagine this process replicating globally, across national boundaries. Ideas from the us have the potential to generate new concepts around the world, which in turn can then benefit the us.

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