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How Will the Great Cessation End?
The United States' rapid economic rebound after World War II resulted initially from deregulation, corporate-tax cuts, and a more flexible business environment. Similar measures now will help the US economy to emerge more smoothly and strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic.
SAN DIEGO – Finance ministers, like restaurateurs, find the same worrisome question slapping them across their face masks: What if we open the economy and no one shows up?