Well, you know the one thing about economies and recessions is sometimes you get hit unexpectedly and there's nothing you can do about it. All brilliant people, but there's nothing. One example was Covid. We had an economy going at levels like nobody had ever seen [before the pandemic]. My first two and a half, three years and then I heard the word pandemic. Not Covid. They came up with that name over a period of time. (00:46–00:51)
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Asserts that the U.S. economy was performing at unprecedented levels before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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