By some measures, the U.S. economy is doing just fine. The broadest measure of the goods and services it produces, gross domestic product, normally chugs along at 2 to 3 growth every year (which is reported quarterly, of course). It dropped precipitously during Q2 2020, shrinking more than 30, and made up for it in the following quarter. It did very well at the end of 2020 and during the first half of 2021, averaging 5.8 annualized growth, and settled down to a more conventional 2.3 growth in Q3 2021.
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