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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (32628)	9/4/2017 4:59:07 PM
From: zzpat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362148

Since the labor force participation rate peaked during the latter part of the Clinton years and has gone down almost every year since then, I think it's fair to say it's not going to go up anytime soon. Since we agree there are many causes for this situation and disagree on only one I'll address that one. I said our publicly held companies have been cut in half since the late 1990s. What do we know for sure? We know the LPR peaked around 1999-2000. We also know the number of public companies has been dramatically cut since the late 1990s. "There were 7,322 in 1996; today there are 3,671" The Economist Is it a coincidence that the LBP and the # of public companies appear to have peaked around the same time? I don't know for sure but it sure looks like it.