published Aug 17th 2016, 6:14 pm, by Barbara Powell and Brian K. Sullivan (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. curbed operations at the fourth-largest U.S. refinery as record flooding in Louisiana shut roadways, sent tens of thousands fleeing from their homes and threatened the state’s oil infrastructure. The Baton Rouge refinery

©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