There's a magic potion to fix the U.S. economy's ills. Finding it is the hard part.

Imagine an factory worker, for example, who produces four medical masks in an hour. A year later he makes five masks an hour —a 20% improvement in productivity. In that scenario, in theory a business could raise the worker’s salary by 20% and still keep the same level of profits. Inflation, for its part, wouldn’t change since the greater supply of masks may cancel out the increase in spending by the enriched worker. Rising productivity was... + full article