Andrew Opdyke -The Economy - 2nd Quarter Update 2021

Published: July 19, 2021, 6 a.m.

The 1st quarter of the year saw tremendous economic growth, but will the 2nd quarter continue the trend?

The economy has broadened in the past few months due to downtown representation and employment acceleration factors. But we still have higher demand than supply, inflation costs, and interest rates concerns.

In this episode of the Secure Your Retirement podcast, we have Andrew Opdyke, a Certified Financial Advisor, Economist at First Trust Advisor. Listen to Andrew as he explains how economic growth, employment, and inflation in the 2nd quarter will influence the federal government\u2019s monetary policies decisions.

In this episode, find out:

\xb7      The broadening up of the economy due to downtown representation.

\xb7      The impact of employment acceleration in the 1st and 2nd quarters on the economy.

\xb7      How the 2nd quarter economic growth will impact the rest of 2021 and the beginning of 2022.

\xb7      How demand is outshining supply which is pushing off growth that could be happening now.

\xb7      How the supply and demand mismatch factor is pushing inflation costs higher.

\xb7      Why employment stability could lead to inflation costs increase in the long term.

\xb7      Why the small and mid-sized companies will outperform due to global reopening.

\xb7      Why monetary policies are going to remain accommodative unit around 2023.

\xb7      Andrew\u2019s personal economic predictions for the rest of 2021 and maybe early 2022.

Tweetable Quotes:

  •   \u201cThe second half from an economic growth perspective has got a lot of fundamental tailwind behind it that will set to continue through the end of the year and into 2022.\u201d- Andrew Opdyke
  •  \u201cThe supply chain is still healing, it\u2019s still fixing.\u201d- Andrew Opdyke

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewopdyke/

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