{"id":124854,"date":"2022-01-27T17:19:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=124854"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:19:02","slug":"us-economic-growth-in-2021-was-the-strongest-since-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/us-economic-growth-in-2021-was-the-strongest-since-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"US economic growth in 2021 was the strongest since 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>The US economic recovery from the depths of the Covid pandemic continued strong last year.<\/p>\n<p>US gross domestic product &#8212; the broadest measure of economic activity &#8212; expanded 5.7% last year, the fastest pace since 1984 when Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday.<br \/>\nThe final three months of 2021 got a much better scorecard than economists had predicted: GDP grew at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 6.9% in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>It was a substantial uptick from the Delta-ridden third quarter, when<strong> <\/strong>GDP grew at an annualized pace of only 2.3%. In fact, it was the best quarterly performance since the third quarter of 2020 when the initial reopening boom buoyed economic growth.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<h3>High growth, high inflation<\/h3>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t just the growth rate that jumped last year. Supply chain chaos, worker shortages and whopping demand also led prices to climb uncomfortably high.<br \/>\nConsumer spending soared 7.9% last year both because Americans kept spending and because prices for goods and services were higher. That was the strongest growth in spending since 1946.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the price index tracking consumer spending &#8212; a key measure of inflation &#8212; rose 3.9%, the largest increase since 1990.<br \/>\nIn the fourth quarter, inflation was 6.5%, the biggest jump since the third quarter of 1981. Consumer spending rose at an annual rate of 3.3% &#8212; more than over the summer, but less than during the stimulus-fueled second quarter of the year.<br \/>\nEconomists were quick to point out that it wasn&#8217;t just American wallets that helped the economy grow last year. A rebuilding in inventories also contributed a lot to the better-than-expected fourth quarter growth rate.<br \/>\n&#8220;Inventory rebuilding contributed 4.9 percentage points to the total, led primarily by the auto sector,&#8221; said James Knightley, chief international economists at ING. &#8220;Given ongoing supply disruption we can&#8217;t count on this continuing to support growth in coming quarters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Next up: Omicron<\/h3>\n<p>As strong as the finish to the 2021 was, the first few months of this year might look rather different.<br \/>\nThe Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which arrived on the scene in late November, sent infections skyrocketing and caused businesses to struggle as workers stayed home to recover. But much of that impact was confined to late December and into January.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Omicron variant almost surely took the edge off growth during the final month of the year, and it is clearly extracting a powerful toll on overall economic activity in the first quarter of 2022,&#8221; said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM US.<br \/>\nOn top of that, the pandemic stimulus that still supported the economy last year is coming to an end. The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it plans to be done rolling back its monthly asset purchases in early March and signaled it would raise interest rates soon after to rein in inflation.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s policies have changed and that means that slower growth is coming our way.<br \/>\n&#8220;While we have reached the end of pandemic era fiscal and monetary policy the pandemic is not yet over,&#8221; Brusuelas added.<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/27\/economy\/us-fourth-quarter-2021-gdp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)The US economic recovery from the depths of the Covid pandemic continued strong last year. 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