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   Could the AI boom give Trump the lower rates he wants?
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              Economic experts, however, caution that it's too early to precisely analyze the economic impact of 
generative AI tools since they aren’t widely used in the workforce. Adoption rates vary by sector with professional and financial services
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              U.S. labor productivity grew at
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              A perplexing trend in the economic data has also caught the attention of policymakers. The economy expanded by 2.2% in 2025, even as overall hiring slowed to a trickle. That suggests U.S. workers are indeed becoming more productive even as fewer workers enter the labor market.
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              Most analysts, though, aren’t citing AI as the
culprit behind the trend. More point to the staggering investments committed to AI as a reason the U.S. economy has been able to keep robust growth. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and
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              all
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