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Ed Yardeni Says The Roaring Twenties May Be Back
Making parallels between the Spanish flu pandemic and Covid-19, the Wall Street veteran says a growth boom could be coming.
Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research Inc.
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These 20s (the 2020s) could be another Roaring 20s (as in the 1920s), according to Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research Inc. “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme,” Yardeni says (à la Mark Twain) on this week’s episode of Merryn Talks Money. Making parallels between the Spanish flu pandemic that preceded the 1920s and the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis, Yardeni contends “we’re in the early stages of a productivity growth boom.”