Chart Of The Day: The Relentless 65-Year Decline In The Labor Force Participation Of Men

There are powerful domestic and international economic forces and welfare state policy impacts—-such as the huge increase in Social Security disability and food stamp recipients—– that are roiling labor force participation rates and weakening labor hours utilized and labor productivity. Yet the Fed is led by a clueless, paint-by-the-numbers Keynesian “conomist” who is trapped in a 1960s “full-employment” time warp.

Did she notice this over the last several decades?

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Reprinted with permission from David Stockman’s Corner.

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