CBO Estimates it Will Take 10 Years Just to Get Back to Even

by Mike ‘Mish’ Shedlock
The Street

Covid-19 will have a decade-long impact on the economy according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Please consider a Comparison of CBO’s May 2020 Interim Projections of GDP and Its January 2020 Baseline Projections.

CBO Key Points

— CBO projects that over the 2020–2030 period, cumulative nominal output will be $15.7 trillion less than what the agency projected in January.

— CBO projects that over the 11-year horizon, cumulative real output (in 2019 dollars) will be $7.9 trillion, or 3.0 percent of cumulative real GDP, less than what the agency projected in January

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