Commentary
Many it seems—the White House but also much of the media and Wall Street—took heart from the Commerce Department’s fourth-quarter report on the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP).
Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor in New York on Jan. 25, 2022. Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo
|Updated:
Milton Ezrati
Author
Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is “Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live.”
