Hey, you feel like you're doing more, getting more product out the door, the productivity

numbers say you are.

Also one last day in Buffalo, New York.

From American public media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdole, it is Thursday today.

This one is the third day of November.

It is always to have you along, everybody.

The macroeconomic formula of the day today is pretty straightforward.

It's widgets produced per hour worked.

You do the yes simplified math.

I'll grant you that and you get worker productivity.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics told us this morning that after two consecutive quarters

of productivity decline, non-farm business sector labor productivity is officially the

term.

Anyway, productivity was up 3, 10th percent July through September.

I actually felt pretty happy when I saw the numbers today.

Stephanie Aronsons, the director and vice president of the economic studies program at the

Brookings Institution.

And fine, here is the more complicated math if you insist.

Output, widgets, right?

Output was up 2.8 percent last quarter.

For the spring, output was held down by swings in inventories and net exports and those

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