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Nice Soft Landing, America. But What Comes Next?
Imagine what issues politicians would be debating if they wanted the country to be better off in 2044.
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Let’s assume the US economy has achieved a rare soft landing, as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently declared. The pandemic-driven disruption is over, jobs recovered, inflation contained.
What comes next? What’s the trajectory? Will people be better off in, say, 2044? Not unless policy makers do some profound rethinking.