The need for stimulus depends on how well policy has “frozen” the economy. Accessed Dec. 22, 2020. One possibility (consistent with our baseline) is that consumers will remain wary for some time. Schools meet virtually, and some parents leave the labor force to manage their children’s schooling. Baseline assumes GDP growth of -4.6% in 2020 and 3.8% in 2021. Those practices will also raise prices—and reduce productivity. Email a customized link that shows your highlighted text. These include banks' prime rate, the Libor, most adjustable-rate loans, and credit card rates. In fact, consumption recovered much faster than our forecast assumed—May’s consumer spending was up 8.1%. According to the data, the average Brent oil price could increase to $183 per barrel in 2050, adjusted for inflation to 2019 dollars. Taking action against systemic bias, racism, and unequal treatment, Key opportunities, trends, and challenges, Go straight to smart with daily updates on your mobile device, See what's happening this week and the impact on your business. The pandemic dramatically changed patterns of spending, however. That might be a hard pill for workers, businesses, and policymakers to swallow. Positions in health care and social assistance are projected to grow to 3.1 million jobs over the course of the decade, reaching 23.5 million come 2029. Computer and math occupations, and those based on alternative energy production, will also grow rapidly. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. But the government will face a crisis if it does not eventually find ways to reduce the deficit and consequent borrowing. Unless otherwise noted, all data supplied by Haver Analytics, which compiles statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and other databases. "Federal Reserves Issues FOMC Statement, March 15, 2020." At the same time, we are lowering our 2021 growth forecast … The housing sector has outperformed the broader economy in the wake of the pandemic. View in article, Steve Rosenthal and Theo Burke, Who’s left to tax? Apart from the fact that buyers and sellers have found ways to navigate the restrictions of the pandemic, a few factors have combined to boost housing demand.8 These include the continued strong economic positions of high-wage remote workers, historically low mortgage rates, and more millennials moving into prime home-buying age. Accessed Dec. 22, 2020. The Congressional Budget Office suggests that the multiplier, or bang for the buck, of federal spending on GDP is higher from direct federal spending, or transfers to state and local governments, for infrastructure than for tax cuts.16 An effective stimulus will likely focus on those areas. The traditional concerns about the Fed buying private assets have gone out the window, and the Fed has created methods for direct lending from US states, counties, and cities (Municipal Liquidity Facility), small and medium-sized businesses (Main Street Lending Program), and purchases of corporate bonds (Primary and Secondary Corporate Credit Facilities).17 This is unprecedented: The Fed has traditionally avoided lending directly, avoiding the complications of dealing with nonfinancial firms. Moreover, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has been below 3% since July. GDP in the United States is expected to reach 19800.00 USD Billion by the end of 2020, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Health Care Costs Will Continue to Increase. Simply select text and choose how to share it: United States Economic Forecast Sep. 11, 2020, 05:54 AM. The fall spike in COVID-19 cases requires additional closures and prevents many people from wanting to resume normal activities. Managing to operate during the pandemic for over a year is a different challenge—and a daunting one. This economic forecast updates the interim forecast that CBO published in May, which focused on 2020 and 2021. Companies in areas such as these will not only be faced with higher costs—they will lose the ability to exploit economies of scale. Strong demand coupled with suppressed housing supply are likely to boost house prices in 2020 and 2021. This is partially because of the massive savings that occurred early in the pandemic, when even the unemployed increased savings.5 And job creation, although slowing, is still large enough to add to incomes—and to support consumer spending. US Forecast Update: US GDP to contract 3.5% in 2020. Reengineering supply chains will inevitably mean a rise in overall costs. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The president does not need congressional approval to remove or reduce tariffs imposed by the previous administration. View in article, Lester Gunnion, Why is the housing sector booming during COVID-19?, Deloitte Insights, November 20, 2020. We expect it to become an upper-income economy during the current five-year plan period (2020-25). © 2021. "News Release: Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims." US Economy In Trouble? Globalization has offered a comparatively painless way to improve most people’s standard of living; deglobalization will involve painful costs and limit real income growth during the recovery. The Fed’s operations have been one of the bright spots of the response to the pandemic. The new vaccines being developed are deployed narrowly (to health care workers and first responders) at first, with little economic impact in the first half of 2021. The failure to extend unemployment insurance (and raise benefit levels) weighs on consumer spending. It predicts crude oil prices will average $43 per barrel in the fourth quarter of 2020, and $49 per barrel in 2021 for Brent global. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists have revised down their estimates for the 2020 US economic growth rate to -4.6% from the previous forecast of -4.4 Businesses are likely to respond to the recent trade policy volatility. The United States may, therefore, see relatively high levels of investment in this recovery. Vaccination campaigns, concerted health policies and government financial support are expected to lift global GDP by 4.2% in 2021 after a fall of 4.2% this year. And good news about vaccines has enabled us to lower the probability of our long slog scenario from 25% to just 10%. The Fed is also working on keeping long-term rates low in an effort to make borrowing money cheaper, and in turn encourage consumer and business spending. Insurance companies paid out $52 billion in 2019 and $86 billion in 2018 in damage claims, which have become worse and more frequent due to global warming. See Terms of Use for more information. The forecast assumes that business spending will remain relatively soft until the overall economy begins to steadily recover in mid-2021. The World Bank’s growth forecast for 2021 would be indicative of a slowdown … As far out as 2025, unemployment remains high, with the level of GDP about 8% below the level it would have reached had the pandemic not occurred. But the International Monetary Fund is downgrading its forecasts for next year, … Until medical interventions render COVID-19 considerations moot, spending is likely to continue to shift away from activities that consumers perceive as risky—entertainment, food service, accommodation—and toward consumption that can take place in a socially distanced way. But it may not achieve the higher productivity we would normally expect that investment to generate. Second, government policy may encourage reshoring in “strategic” industries, especially medically related industries such as instruments and pharmaceuticals, arguing that it’s worth some inefficiency to obtain better national control over these areas in a future crisis. "Federal Reserve Announces Extensive New Measures to Support the Economy." Banks remain well capitalized; the financial system is operating normally. Some of those reasons, unfortunately, may actually reduce productivity. See: “Funding, credit, liquidity, and loan facilities,” November 20, 2020. In the longer term, businesses will still be looking for people—but perhaps in different industries and occupations. Flavio Lo Scalzo/Reuters. Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee ("DTTL"), its network of member firms, and their related entities. Vaccine development is undeniably good news for consumers and businesses. Potential GDP remains about 2% below the prepandemic trend in 2025. 06 October 2020 Chris Varvares Joel Prakken, Ph.D. Shutting down much of the US economy to fight COVID-19 might be expected to raise prices, with supply chains strangled. Base Case Forecast: Our base case forecast yields 4Q20 real GDP growth of 2.8 percent* (annualized rate), an annual contraction of 3.6 percent for 2020, and an annual expansion of 3.6 percent for 2021. View in article, According to a recent poll, just 58% of Americans would agree to be vaccinated against COVID-19; see: R.J. Reinhart, “More Americans now willing to get Covid-19 vaccine,” Gallup, November 17, 2020. Much of business investment was interrupted, like everything else, by the closing of the economy to slow the pandemic’s spread. View in article, Issi Romem, “The silver tsunami: Which areas will be flooded with homes once Boomers start leaving them?,” Zillow, November 22, 2019. How things turn out depends largely on the response of economic policymakers and public health authorities—and the nature of that response is changing hourly. “Externalshock” is a technical-sounding term that economists use to describe a random event that disturbs the economy. Relief spending thus far has ballooned the budget deficit. That’s been most evident in energy, where the CPI in October was over 9% below the previous year’s level. More than 20 million people are receiving unemployment insurance, and many will lose their incomes if the expansion of unemployment benefits does not continue. Without a relief bill, many industries will feel the drop in spending, from both lower unemployment benefits and state and local layoffs. Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 33.4 percent in the third quarter of 2020, as efforts continued to reopen businesses and resume activities that were postponed … Fast return to the starting line (25%): A significant relief bill keeps demand growing in the first half of 2021, and then pent-up demand creates a large burst of spending starting in mid-2021 as vaccines are widely deployed. "Federal Reserve Press Release, Sept. 16, 2020." In the longer term, the Fed will want to wean markets off of its aid. Global exports grew from 13% of global GDP in 1970 to 34% in 2012, but globalization then began to stall, the share of exports in global GDP started to fall, and opponents of freer trade have taken power in key countries (most notably the United States and the United Kingdom), suggesting that the policies that fostered globalization may change in the future. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The forecast also does not factor in the pandemic's impact on oil prices., The Federal Reserve is concerned about how climate change will affect the economy. Roger Wohlner is a financial advisor and writer with 20 years of experience in the industry. The Fed’s prompt and strong actions kept financial markets liquid and operating, preventing that additional level of pain. The Kiplinger Letter's Must-Read Political and Economic Forecasts for 2020 business The annual outlook reveals what to expect from the U.S. economy, … Worse, the number of people unemployed for a long period of time is growing quickly; long-term unemployment is associated with a number of bad outcomes, including lower productivity (and lower wages) for these workers when they do finally return to work.2. The Deloitte Global Economist Network is a diverse group of economists that produce relevant, interesting, and thought-provoking content for external and internal audiences. U.S. oil prices will also rise in 2021., The EIA's energy outlook through 2050 predicts rising oil prices. The upward revision primarily reflected larger increases in personal consumption expenditures and nonresidential fixed investment. U.S. Energy Information Administration. Goldman Sachs is … The recovery would be stronger if vaccines are rolled out fast, boosting confidence and lowering uncertainty. By June 2020, its balance sheet had grown to a record of $7.2 trillion, and six months later by mid-December, that number had reached $7.3 trillion.. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. That’s why Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has emphasized the importance of action by Congress and the president.18 As he points out, the Fed has “lending, not spending, powers.” It would be foolish to expect Fed action alone to solve this economic crisis. In fact, very low interest rates on US government debt indicate that the world wants more, not less, American debt. See something interesting? It is estimated to then rebound up to a 4.2% growth rate in 2021, and slow to 3.2% in 2022, and 2.4% in 2023., The FOMC estimates that the unemployment rate will be 6.7% for the year of 2020. Second-quarter GDP therefore fell “only” 9.5% (33% at an annual rate), according to the initial report on July 30. On the other hand, the demand shock has begun to drive down some prices. What Is the Current Fed Interest Rate and Why Does It Change? Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product, Advance Retail Sales: Retail and Food Services, Total, Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey, News Release: Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims, Dec. 16, 2020: FOMC Projections Materials, Accessible Version, Projections Overview and Highlights, 2019 to 2029. View in article, Jerome H. Powell, “COVID-19 and the economy,” speech, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, April 9, 2020; Jerome H. Powell, “Current economic issues,” speech, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, May 13, 2020. View in article. And we expect it to overtake the US a full five years earlier than we did a year ago. The BLS 2019 through 2029 projections do not include impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and response efforts, as the historical data was finalized in spring 2020. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Get the Deloitte Insights app. World Bank Predicts Strong GDP Growth In 2021 Won’t Overcome Weak 2020. Other declines will occur in the postal service, agriculture, and some information-related industries.. In fact, consumption recovered much faster than our forecast assumed—May’s consumer spending was up 8.1%. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The forced closure of businesses across the United States and surge in unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic will force U.S. … Accessed Dec. 22, 2020. already exists in Saved items. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product.” Accessed Dec. 22, 2020. "The Impact of Higher Temperatures on Economic Growth," Page 4. It’s likely that President Biden will move quickly to reduce trade tensions, especially with traditional allies. Global damage from natural disasters associated with climate change, such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, was $150 billion in 2019, down from $186 billion in 2018. Just as the “China price” held inflation in check for years, an attempt to avoid being dependent on China might create inflation pressures in the later years of our forecast horizon. Over the past few years, analysts have begun to face the possibility of deglobalization. Accessed Dec. 22, 2020. For example, the BLS predicts jobs for wind turbine service technicians to increase by 60.7% from 2019 to 2029. “Dec. All of these will likely help prevent extreme events from shutting down production but reduce efficiency and add to costs in normal operation. And the need for state and local governments to cut spending creates an additional drag on GDP. Meanwhile, many workers who assumed disruption would be short-term found themselves tied down at home for what turned out to be most of an entire school year, managing their jobs and children’s education at the same time. It’s impossible, of course, to simply and quickly refashion supply chains to reduce foreign dependence. Jul. Overall, the BLS expects total employment to increase by 6 million jobs between 2019 and 2029.. Such labor market adjustments are usually slow to occur, one reason why we expect the overall economic recovery in the baseline to be relatively slow. Wars are external shocks; so are earthquakes … and diseases. While this has unfortunately concentrated the economic impact of the pandemic on those least able to manage, rehiring can take place quickly once demand recovers. COVID-19 has thrown the problem of inequality into sharp relief, straining the budgets and living situations of millions of lower-income households. Consider, for example, the fact that large airlines remain solvent and ready to expand service when necessary—if that were not the case, recreating airline services once the pandemic is over would be considerably more expensive and time-consuming. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food at home rose 4% in the second quarter as supply chain problems caused spot shortages for consumers—with some reversal afterwards as things settled down. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) provides an outlook on oil and gas prices from 2020 to 2050. Whether or not the specific vaccines in the upbeat November headlines prove to be winners, the likelihood of an effective vaccine being deployed seems to have increased sharply. But the US economic forecast in 2020 and … Insurance Information Institute. First, many businesses will need to spend on safety equipment that will neither improve productivity nor add to profits. Long slog (10%): COVID-19 cases continue to climb through the winter, and states are forced to attempt to again limit economic activity. Moreover, an aging demographic means that more than a quarter of the nation’s existing owner-occupied homes are likely to become available over the next 20 years as the current owners either pass away or vacate their homes.9. Forecast is based on an assessment of the economic climate in individual countries and the world economy, using a combination of model-based analyses and expert judgement. Discover Deloitte and learn more about our people and culture. Constant price estimates of GDP are obtained by expressing values of all goods and services produced in a given year, expressed in terms of a base period. Our baseline continues to show very slow growth until mid-2021, with the distinct possibility of a negative first quarter in 2021. But companies will likely begin to reduce their dependence on foreign suppliers, or attempt to have a portfolio of suppliers rather than a single source, even if the single source is the cheapest. Analysts also have taken a hard look at interest rates, oil and gas prices, jobs, and the impact of climate change. In the third quarter, goods accounted for 34% of consumer spending (up from about 31% before the pandemic), with services falling correspondingly to 66% of spending. Dr. Bachman came to Deloitte from IHS economics, where he was in charge of IHS’s Center for Forecasting and Modeling. State and local governments face a significant funding problem. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. Accessed Dec. 22, 2020. Department of Labor. Federal Reserve Board. 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