“We’ve never had it as good as today”

new York The inflation rate in the USA is currently five percent and in Germany it is 7.4 percent. At the same time, fears of a recession are increasing. Economist and happiness researcher Justin Wolfers from the University of Michigan is optimistic: the booming job market makes people happy with a job. For the USA he says: “Measured by the indicators, we have never had it better than today.”

Inflation in the US, including core inflation, is also falling. A recession is by no means certain. First-quarter gross domestic product growth figures, to be released this Thursday, showed that the economy was “really picking up momentum.”