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Professor Richard Sylla explains why companies have made fewer new investments

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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "'Investment is one of the drivers of economic growth,' Sylla said. 'But ever since the financial crisis, companies have been reluctant to make new investments. And that's partly responsible for our slow economic growth.' Sylla said investor pressure is particularly acute for manufacturing firms such as Dow and Dupont; they face global competition, in a way American tech companies don't."

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