US Economic and Financial Outlook - 2021

The Markets’ Strange Disregard for the Chaos in Washington

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/trump-capitol-stock-market.html 

Here’s (Almost) Everything Wall Street Expects in 2021
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-investment-outlooks/

The stock market is ending 2020 in record territory, even as virus surges and millions go hungry
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/31/stock-market-record-2020/

Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/upshot/why-markets-boomed-2020.html

The December Numbers Were Awful, but the Economy Has a Clear Path to Health
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/upshot/jobs-report-economy-analysis.html
Are the increasingly upbeat economic forecasts for 2021 warranted?
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/532374-are-the-increasingly-upbeat-economic-forecasts-for-2021-warranted 

A Divided Economy

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-economic-recovery-inequality/
The Pandemic Recession Has Given Way to a K-Shaped U.S. Economic Recovery
https://www.ut.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Business/Economics/Tampabayeconomy_fall2020.pdf

The Inflation Debate That’s Roiling U.S. Markets Faces 2021 Test
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-09/the-inflation-debate-that-s-roiling-u-s-markets-faces-2021-test 

How the Fed Will Respond to the Coming Inflation Scare
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-30/inflation-scare-how-the-federal-reserve-will-respond

Five (somewhat) upbeat predictions for 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/31/economic-predictions-2021/
The Fed Is Powerful, Except in Fighting Wealth Inequality
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-31/the-fed-is-powerful-except-in-fighting-wealth-inequality
Big Economic Stimulus Works. And That's a Problem
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-30/success-of-economic-stimulus-could-erode-central-bank-independence