America’s boom has begun. Can it last?
High-frequency economic data suggest it’s full steam ahead
THE LATEST monthly employment report, published on April 2nd, painted an impressive picture: over the previous month America created more than 900,000 jobs. That figure, the strongest since August, reflects the state of the economy in the first half of March, when the surveys took place. But a look at “high-frequency” economic data for more recent weeks, on everything from daily restaurant diners to Google-search behaviour, suggests that, since then, the recovery has if anything accelerated further. America’s post-lockdown boom has begun.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Charging ahead”
United States April 10th 2021
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