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Fiscal boost not as large as headline figures suggest

The $900bn fiscal relief deal agreed by Congress won’t represent as big a fiscal expansion as the headline figures suggest as it appears to mostly involve recycling the unused funding from previous stimulus deals this year. Nevertheless, it provides another reason to expect GDP growth to rebound markedly next year as vaccines are rolled out.

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