Why markets boomed in a year of human misery?
Sat, Jan 2, 2021 7:48 PM

Why markets boomed in a year of human misery?

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It’s a macabre spectacle. Asset prices keep reaching new, extraordinary highs when around 3,000 people a day are dying of coronavirus and 800,000 people a week are filing new unemployment claims. The central, befuddling economic reality of the United States at the close of 2020 is that everything is terrible in the world, while everything is wonderful in the financial markets.

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