Christopher Desure News Today

February 24, 2021 The U.S. economy remains mired in a pandemic winter of shuttered storefronts, high unemployment and sluggish job growth. But on Wall Street and in Washington, attention is shifting to an intriguing if indistinct prospect: a post-COVID boom. Forecasters have always expected the pandemic to be followed by a period of strong growth as businesses reopen and Americans resume their normal activities. But in recent weeks, economists have begun to talk of something stronger: a superch...

The US economy remains mired in a pandemic winter of shuttered storefronts and high unemployment. But on Wall Street and in Washington, attention is shifting to an intriguing prospect: a post-COVID boom.

Signs of economic life are picking up, and mounds of cash are waiting to be spent as the virus loosens its grip.