US productivity plunges in Q1; unit labor costs surge. CNBC

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CNBC

U.S. nonfarm productivity fell more sharply than previously thought in the first quarter, leading to a jump in labor-related production costs, a trend that could spur a rapid increase in inflation.

Productivity dropped at a 3.1 percent annual rate instead of the previously reported 1.9 percent rate, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That was the first back-to-back fall in productivity since 2006.
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Some economists say that declining productivity can be good because it means that businesses have to hire more workers to increase output faster. Hiring more workers means a lowering of U-6, which then removes more slack from the labor market and puts upward pressure on labor costs. I don't really have an opinion either way.

What's concerning is that capacity utilization has been dropping after nearly reaching the long-term average from 1972 - 2014:

federalreserve.gov/releases/G17/Current/
 
Millions of pages of new federal regulations which cause corps to hire 280,000 non-productive paper-pushers filing new federal forms for hundreds of thousand of new government employees to read (creating nothing) is a good thing?
 
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