In 2020 I published: Skill Stalagmites, Technology Stalactites, an article that explained various puzzles of the 21st-century U.S economy. This blog continues on from that article.

Key posts on Strange Tidings are:

America’s mysterious labor market, why the U.S labor participation rate fell post-2000 even as labor participation rose virtually everywhere else.

The higher effort hypothesis, which explains why all this happened after 2000 and not before.

And American exception, why do we only see higher effort levels in the U.S economy and nowhere else?

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