What Went Down On Night 2 Of The RNC

Without getting into TOO many debates about the use of economic priors in forecasting models, this recession certainly hasn’t been typical of past ones in terms of the speed of the recovery, the stock market remaining fairly buoyant, etc. — and Trump’s approval ratings for his handling of the economy remain pretty decent.

Larry Kudlow, the White House National Economic Council director, is talking about the pandemic entirely in the past tense.