productive
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Capital-gains indexing for inflation would be the cleanest complement: It raises the after-tax reward for deploying capital into productive assets precisely when the economy needs it most.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is looking at an overwhelming amount of cash “that he has literally run out of productive places to put it fast enough,” Malek said in emailed comments.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
Findlay Curtis, the bit-part and underappreciated 19-year-old from Rangers, is included after a productive loan spell at Kilmarnock.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The general idea behind that line of thinking goes like this: AI will make companies and workers more productive, allowing companies to not raise prices.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Early rice agriculture in Korea used dry-field methods rather than irrigated paddies and was not particularly productive.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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