productive
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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
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
If an engineer on my team can now be 10 times as productive, I’m going to hire as many as I can find.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
"Once I have showed they are productive and they are a good effective means of getting mammal data, we can then look for more grants to try and raise a bit more money," Edmunds said.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
In reality, although we frequently draw such a contrast, hunter-gatherers in some productive areas, including North America’s Pacific Northwest coast and possibly southeastern Australia, became sedentary but never became food producers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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