https://www.scmp.com/rss/508822/feed Florence Wang is a final-year student at Princeton University studying public and international affairs with a minor in statistics and machine learning. Her undergraduate research recently won the Centre for Statistics and Machine Learning’s Best Independent Work prize. Upon graduation, she will join Bain Capital as an analyst in Boston. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com We are now a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and one question remains: when will the global economy recover from what has been called the worst pandemic in over 100 years? Central to the uncertainty surrounding this question are the two very different stories that the financial markets and the real economy have painted. On one hand, the stock market has rebounded marvellously since the pandemic sell-off last March, realising a sharp V-shaped recovery to 2019 levels of activity. To the extent... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3121165/what-500-years-history-tells-us-about-long-term-economic-impact?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3121165/what-500-years-history-tells-us-about-long-term-economic-impact?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:15:07 +0000