It's fashionable to think that, just like his former boss, president Barack Obama, president-elect Joe Biden is inheriting a damaged economy that will struggle to recover, perhaps for years.

The reality is quite the opposite, with Biden stepping into a dream scenario for US economic growth on the other side of the battle with the Covid-19 pandemic...

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