Joe Lavorgna
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
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And what I mean by that is that bill is encouraging significant business investment and building factories and expensing CapEx.
We've already seen the CapEx come back in full force.
This is helping lift productivity growth, which is output per hour.
And that has also been galvanized through a lot of business friendly deregulation where companies can operate more officially.
So you're seeing these big productivity gains.
Why does that matter?
Productivity gains matter because rising productivity is the lifeblood of rising living standards.
When companies can produce more with their existing workforce, they can pay those workers more.
So what the Trump administration's policies are going to do is they're going to allow people to take home more pay.
After-tax take-home pay will be going up.
And because the economy is investing in the future, it could produce more, which means prices could come down.
So what you have is a disinflationary boom, strong growth led by productivity, and prices falling because the economy's productive capacity is increasing.
Think of it this way.
Energy.
The drill baby drill, the opening of federal lands, the easing of permitting and things of that sort to invest in energy production, what's that doing?
It's increasing output, but at the same time, it's lowering the energy cost.
Take that and multiply it across the economy.
That's how you basically get affordability to massively improve is you're allowing people to keep more of what they have, and you're giving them the tools to produce more so that they get paid more, and that's higher living standards.
I understand your point about public versus private markets, and I think that reflects the fact that under –
Unfortunately, many Democrat administrations had significant overregulation, so capital immediately went to the private market instead of the public market.
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