Commentary
It looks as if we can add another line to the long list of lockdown harms. Sloth.
This explains so much actually. For months, we’ve been watching working/population ratios and labor participation rates and have been stunned by how they both continue to plummet. We search for explanations. Early retirement. Women driven out due to childcare shortages. Unemployment payments.
All these factors contribute but there is still more to explain.
In the midst of the astonishing hullabaloo over the raid of Donald Trump’s home—and the confiscation of a pro-freedom Republican Congressman’s smartphone—the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped a remarkable report on labor productivity. Here we see something we’ve never seen before….