this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
9 points (71.4% liked)

Canada

7206 readers
421 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Communities


🍁 Meta


πŸ—ΊοΈ Provinces / Territories


πŸ™οΈ Cities / Local Communities


πŸ’ SportsHockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


πŸ’» Universities


πŸ’΅ Finance / Shopping


πŸ—£οΈ Politics


🍁 Social and Culture


Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

An economist can tell me how productive stock buybacks and CEO and executive salary raises are because they too are at record levels post-pandemic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

how productive stock buybacks [...] are

Depends on what the average Joe who was previously holding the stock does with the money they receive in that buyback. If they invest it in productive activity, then it can boost productivity. If they use it to buy a house, well...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, but our productivity has been low for decades.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canadian businesses invested 55 cents per worker for every dollar invested per worker in the United States in 2021, down from 79 cents in 2014, according to a June report by the Fraser Institute think-tank.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I need something more reputable than Fraser Think Tank honestly. But I do agree Canada has lower Capital intensity than the USA.