What a difference a year makes. When the pandemic began, the BBC spoke to some economists to make sense of what was happening to the US economy. We went back to those same experts to see how things played out, and what they're keeping their eye on in the future. At the time, they all said they thought the country would fare better than it did the last time it was faced with widespread economic uncertainty, during the 2008 economic recession. But they also had some worries, about how much the government would intervene and how effective the country's vaccine programme would be. Prediction: Governments would have to ... (full story)