Now THAT was easy! As Q1 was wrapping up, the U.S. economy – having stumbled groggily out of a year-long nap – looked ready to stage a Rocky Balboa-style comeback.

Let’s be real: it has been a very, very long time since we have had to have this sort of conversation. There’s really no other way to put it, though: things are straight up booming right now!

KEEP CALM AND RALLY ON!

You’d be right to suspect that – as usual – a very different working title originally was queued up to open this quarter’s piece. Truth is, my first impulse was to go with a rousing chorus of Life of Brian’s “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” as I could imagine no more fitting salute to 2020’s swirl around the toil…

HISTORY IN THE MAKING

It’s not very often you can use a headline like that comfortably, without feeling as though you need to second-guess yourself; quite frankly, in light of everything we’ve had to go through to get to this point, that’s just fine with us! We feel quite confident, however, applying this particular lens to our current global circumstances.