And the Gross Domestic Product also showed strong growth in the third quarter of 2021 - which is from July to September.
It grew by 15.2% compared to the same period last year - which, while it sounds impressive, is pretty meaningless, since last year was an economic flatline.
Now if you compare it to the same period in pre - COVID 2020, it still is lagging behind, but there are encouraging signs since there was growth across all sectors. Here's more form statistician Christopher Hulse
And what we think is a neat gauge of tubist activity, society's state of mind and access to disposable income is the amount f beverages - both soft and hard - which are consumed in any period. In the third quarter of 2021, production of beer and sodas were way up:
