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IT’S BEEN A CRAZY COUPLE OF WEEKS IN THE pandemic economic prediction business.

So crazy that even the White House can’t get its stories straight. In one corner President Donald Trump’s advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told us that happy days will be here again—and the country “rocking” by July. In the other, former White House Council of Economic Advisors chair and now White House consultant Kevin Hassett called the economic situation “grave.” (Granted, he was quickly told to knock off the “gloom and doom” by his colleague, Peter Navarro.)

But be wary of those rosy forecasts put out by market analysts and the White House. It’s going to take a while. Exactly how long depends on science, not politics, as Warren Buffett said on April 2 at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting.

Nobody likes that answer. But Hassett, before his time ran out, was simply saying what most economists are saying.

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