Get ready for another roaring '20s, UCLA economic forecast predicts

[Zorro]

You may be shut inside your home. You may be out working a job but in fear of contracting the coronavirus. You may be mourning the demise of your neighborhood’s small businesses. You may be unemployed and unable to pay your rent.

And for the next few months, the situation may grow even worse.

But then get ready for the roaring ’20s.

UCLA economists issued an optimistic forecast Wednesday, predicting the U.S. economy will experience “a gloomy COVID winter and an exuberant vaccine spring,” followed by robust growth for some years.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-12-09/california-economy-ucla-forecast-covid-vaccine

[PoliticAverse]

1. The "roaring 20's" didn't end well. n/t

[malaise]

2. Ended with the greatest depression and the fascist war

Sad

[jcgoldie]

3. Yes but we learned so much since then...

*checks Trump's twitter*... uhmm nevermind

[malaise]

7. KABOOM!

We sure didn't

[qazplm135]

6. good times don't last forever, bad times don't either

war isn't going away because we are human beings, it's in our nature.

It's going to take centuries to beat that out of our nature, and it's probably going to take technology that renders power, water, and food so plentiful that no one wants to fight over it. That, and the slow (too slow) but inevitable death of religion, and things will eventually improve I believe.

Until then, the old paradigm holds...bad times then good times then bad times then good times and on and on.

[BannonsLiver]

4. I predict the responses will be ultra doomy.

(So far so good lol)

[LisaM]

5. I'll take the 1990s, please.

We weren't in any wars, employment was soaring, rents were still affordable, and downtown Seattle was booming with music and lots of great stores, coffee carts, and the last of the old diners. The theatre scene was strong. And people seemed as if they were in a good mood for long stretches of time.

So can we please have that back, this time without Newt Gingrich to end it?

[The Genealogist]

9. I'll take the 1990s too

There were some hiccups under Republican Bush, but for the most part, I remember the 1990s as a relatively pleasant, stable time. Perhaps it was because it was the decade I became an adult and began exploring the world for real and figuring out who I was. It wasn't all beer and skittles, but what decade is? Repeat it? Sure. And yes, this time without Newt.

[rurallib]

8. look who's lining up to take credit - It is Benedict Donald!