No, Secretary Yellen, labor shortage is no ‘mystery’

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During a conference with the Financial Times, Janet Yellen said something she cannot possibly believe. To be sure, she parroted the Biden administration’s spin that the current inflation is merely a product of the pandemic temporarily constricting supply, but then there was one matter that not even the treasury secretary could spin.

Asked about the reason for the extraordinary low supply of labor, Yellen deemed it a “mystery.”

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