BOULDER — The local, state and national economy should bounce back more rapidly from the hits it has taken during the COVID-19 pandemic than it did from the Great Recession, according to University of Colorado Boulder economists who spoke Thursday at the virtual “2021 Economic Forecast: Boulder and Beyond.” “We think this recovery’s going to be substantially quicker,” said Rich Wobbekind, senior economist and associate dean for business and government relations at CU Boulder. “The 2008-10 recession was really a global financial crisis. We needed to repair the financial system and the economic system. That took many years to fully repair — over six years to get back to the same level of jobs.