Jumat, 12 Februari 2021

Deepest recession for 300 years has not seemed to be a recession at all - The Times

The recession of 2020 was a recession like no other. You have to go back a century to 1921 to find an annual collapse in GDP on a scale comparable to last year’s 9.9 per cent fall and a further two centuries to the Great Frost of 1709 to find a deeper downturn.

But it is not the tumbling of historical records that makes 2020 unique. Last year’s crisis was remarkable because households and businesses were protected from its blows. The government stood in the way, acting as a giant shock absorber. The economic impact of the pandemic has been horribly uneven, entrenching inequalities and making winners of some businesses and losers of others, but for companies and households in aggregate it is hard to

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