November 15, 2020
ELLECTIONS HAVE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES:
Biden Is Stepping Into a Dream Economic Scenario (Tim Duy, November 11, 2020, Bloomberg)
Third, household balance sheets were not crushed like they were in the last recession. Instead, the opposite occurred. Reduced spending, fiscal stimulus, rising home prices and a buoyant equity market have all helped push household net wealth past its pre-pandemic peak.Fourth, the demographics are incredibly supportive of growth. During the last recovery, the economy was still adapting to the Baby Boomers aging out of the workforce with a much smaller cohort of Generation X'ers behind them. The larger Millennial generation was just entering college at the time. Now, the Millennials are entering their prime homebuyer years in force and will be moving into their peak earning years. The resulting strength in housing is fueling higher home prices and durable goods spending, and we are just at the beginning of the trend. Housing activity should hold strong for the next four years.Fifth, household savings have grown by more than a $1 trillion, providing the fuel for a hot economy on the other side of the pandemic. Sooner or later, that money is going to come out of savings and into the economy and I expect it to flow into the sectors like leisure and hospitality where there is considerable pent up demand.
And the Baby Boomers are about to transfer $30 trillion to those successor generations. Just as the Right cost the GOP credit for the post-Cold War boom of the 90s, so too have they handed this one to Joe.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 15, 2020 7:44 AM
