Will the 2020s Really Become the Next Roaring Twenties?

In a dark moment, some predict a new economic and cultural boom. Here’s the reality

Steve LeVine
Marker
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14 min readJan 17, 2021

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Photo illustration, sources: Vintage Images; Jasmin Merdan/Moment; Issarawat Tattong/Moment (via Getty)

In recent years, leading economists, investors, and journalists have painted a decidedly grim vision of our near future: The U.S. economic system and society itself are coming apart, these dystopian voices have said, beset by one of…

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Steve LeVine
Marker
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Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.