By Baxter
Morgan Stanley is crediting President Joe Biden’s economic policies with driving an unexpected surge in the US economy that is so significant that the bank was forced to make a “sizable upward revision” to its estimates for the US gross domestic product.
Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is “driving a boom in large-scale infrastructure,” wrote Ellen Zentner, chief US economist for Morgan Stanley, in a research note released Thursday. In addition to infrastructure, “manufacturing construction has shown broad strength,” she wrote.
As a result of these unexpected swells, Morgan Stanley now projects 1.9% GDP growth for the first half of this year. That’s nearly four times higher than the bank’s previous forecast of 0.5%.
“The economy in
the first half of the year is growing much stronger than we had
anticipated, putting a more comfortable cushion under our long-held soft
landing view,” Zentner wrote. We cats PURR.
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