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
"There have been things the agency's done that have been productive to stop the rot of the bots," she tells the BBC.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
“You’d be like: ‘Oh, I should hire 10 sales reps’ because they’re all 10 times more productive.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The adoption of intensive food production from the Asian mainland was also very slow and piecemeal in Japan, probably because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle based on seafood and local plants was so productive there.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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