Editor's Note: Below is a brief excerpt and chart from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough. Click here to learn more.

"... The productivity point is one that one of the world’s largest asset managers made to us in recent meetings in California. The PM asked whether all this “Fed Watching” was distracting companies from investing in real things as opposed to the next frontier of rumors…

 

Even if you go Ex-Energy, Ex-GAAP-Earnings, Ex-GDP with your narrative that everything ZIRP, NIRP, TWIRP is good, you’ll still have a very hard time convincing a rational human being who isn’t bought and paid for by the system that US Productivity at generational lows is…"

CHART OF THE DAY: U.S. Productivity At Generational Lows? Yup - 08.23.16 chart