©2015 Bloomberg View NSCPC86JTSEN (Bloomberg View) — Almost nothing in economics is more important, or mysterious, than productivity. It means the amount of stuff — goods, services, economic value — produced for a given amount of input. It is productivity that separates today’s rich, modern consumer societies from subsistence farmers

©2015 Bloomberg News NYM03N6KLVRAp (Bloomberg) — Ted Cruz moved to seize his Iowa moment on a cold Sunday evening at a gas station convenience store in a town of under 1,000 people. The Depot Express in Van Horne was packed to capacity with nearly a hundred voters in the state