America is not Committing Economic Suicide — a modest critique of an ill-conceived essay

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The coronavirus outbreak sucks. Three months into living with the virus in Hong Kong, I’ve never been so irritable or depressed wondering when things will get better — which is good since I evaluate economies for a living. So when a friend of mine forwarded me an article with the provocative title “America is Comitting Economic Suicide”, my…