The forced abstention from social activities has violently compressed supply and demand: will they snap like springs now that the restrictions are eased? Never as on this occasion have so many and such expansive policies been deployed: what ingredient is missing for the success of the monetary and fiscal recipe? The Stock Exchanges, more on the other side of the Atlantic than on this side of the Atlantic, have gone up a lot: a gamble or a reasonable bet? The costs of producing any good have gone up yet inflation is going down: what's the mystery?
The hands of the economy, the monthly column edited by Fabrizio Galimberti and Luca Paolazzi, respond and trace the economic scenario for real and financial variables. Saturday on FIRSTonline.