Flashback: 2020

As we sit on the edge of a New Year, we want to take a moment to look back at what made 2020 so unprecedented. The year was expected to be nothing less than exceptional for the business world. The labor market was strong, with a marked labor shortage (caused by the 50-year record low unemployment rates). We closed 2019 believing that the greatest risks to the national economic well-being were trade policies, the fed, and politics. Then the Covid-19 pandemic [...]