Feature Essay: The Second Half Economy and Beyond

And a review of David Rose's 'Why Culture Matters Most'

With 2021’s second half now opening, what can we say about the rest-of-year prospects and beyond? Has enough of what may be called the normal economy emerged for us to be able to read its health? Or is there still so much Covid-19 medicine in the economy’s veins that it’s impossible to know what is real and what is stimulus and command driven?

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