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Checks and Balance: Recovery time

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As America reopens, new business creation is at record levels and there is upward pressure on wages for the first time in decades. How has the pandemic restructured the American economy? 


The Economistโ€™s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes joins the panel. President Obamaโ€™s former chief economist Jason Furman assesses the shift in fiscal policy. And Ryan Avent, our economics columnist, looks at the strange labour market. 


John Prideaux hosts with Jon Fasman.


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