Consider the three graphs below. What do you think explains the (measured) fall in US productivity? Manufacturing preductivity grewth 2009-2022 (annual everage) Taiwan United Kingdom Germany South Korea France Italy US Japan Sources: SF Fed and WSJ possible explanations:
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