Why Would an Economist Ever Look on the Bright Side?
The New York Times
For Wall Street, and the dismal science as a whole, trouble is around every corner even as the economy booms.
America’s dismal scientists can paint even a blue-sky outlook gray. The country is experiencing the fastest economic rebound in at least a generation, but Wall Street and Washington are hardly taking a victory lap. In any other environment, the 6.3 percent pace of expansion economists have penciled in for the United States this year would represent a victory. They do acknowledge that it is a solid rebound after the shock and slump of 2020. But that doesn’t stop them from fretting about every incoming piece of data, and how quickly it can go from good to terrible. Is the job market recovery poised to slow? Are we about to slip into a slow-growth, high-inflation stagflation? In the murky, Delta-infused post-pandemic recovery, behind every good economic data point lurks potential disaster.
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