As you might remember, there was at least one other part of the U.S. economy that added a lot of jobs between 1990 and today: the sector classified as “computer systems design and related services,” which tripled its job numbers, adding more than a million jobs all by itself. The total jobs added by finance and computers were way over the 620,000 jobs added by the tradable sector as a whole; those gains were balanced out by big losses in manufacturing. The combination of positive and negative allows you, if you’re not careful, to tell a fake story, in which the whole work of job creation in
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