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Investors Chronicle (Magazine):
The dark side of the jobs miracle

29 March 2019

Secondly, workers are not being displaced by new technology. Business investment has fallen since 2016. There are countless reasons for this, many of them longstanding structural ones. One, which might have become more intense recently, is uncertainty about Brexit. Stanford University's Nick Bloom and colleagues estimate that this has depressed capital spending since 2016.
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