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January 01, 2021
Read: Viewpoint January 2021 - A Stephens Inc. Economic and Financial Commentary
Technology visionaries such as Elon Musk are plotting a path to Mars, unlike Earth-bound economists who keep struggling with more mundane issues such as:
- What is the path of the current economic recovery?
- Did the strong growth of the third quarter of 2020 continue through fourth quarter and into 2021?
- Will the second wave of Covid-19 slow the return to normalcy?
- Is the economy likely headed toward a period of languid growth as forecast by some economists?
No simple answers to these questions are readily apparent. This issue of Viewpoint is focused on unraveling the uncertainties confronting the American economy in 2021.
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