To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: New numbers show that the U.S. economy “picked up speed last quarter,” expanding 1.6% in the first three months of the year [for an annualized 6.4%], as a mix of stimulus money and falling unemployment helped power consumer spending - NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg The Upshot on how the post-Covid economy is showing itself to be different than the pre-Covid one, even as the high-level numbers [see above] suggest we’re nearing a return to “normal.” In short, the economy of 2021 is “profoundly unequal across sectors, unbalanced in ways that have enormous long-term implications for businesses and workers” - NYTimes