COVID Relief Spending Dwarfs All Precedents : The NPR Politics Podcast npr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from npr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley economics professor Martha Olney says that in the 1920s, households bought durable goods cars, appliances, furniture, jewelry which led to a quickly booming economy. But today, because more than 60% of what the U.S. produces are services, it will take longer to bounce back from the recession caused by the pandemic. (Flickr photo) In this episode of
Berkeley Talks , Martha Olney, a teaching professor of economics at UC Berkeley, discusses the economic forecast how the post-pandemic U.S. economy might compare to that of the so-called roaring ‘20s.