Finding the “New Normal”

To understand where we are in the economic cycle, what lies ahead, and why there are so many conflicting policy prescriptions, it's necessary to understand the extraordinary situation we've faced over the past two years. Keep listening as the Trends editors discuss moving beyond the current crisis and operating in the "new normal."

As the late, great paleontologist Stephen J. Gould explained, the fossil record shows little, if any, "gradual change" in living organisms over time. Instead, organisms .....