The Undollar Digest

Man vs. Machine, a Jobless Recovery

Timothy Aeppel 01/17/2012 online.wsj.com

In no other U.S. recovery since World War II have companies been simultaneously faster to boost spending on machines and software, while slower to add people to run them.
Part of this is the old story of substituting capital for labor. But a combination of temporary tax breaks that allowed companies in 2011 to write off [...]


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