Welcome to DiscRep, your guide to the public discourse. I’m Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere), editor in chief of Arc Digital.

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1. Seven Reasons to Be Extremely Optimistic About the Economy Right Now by Jordan Weissmann in Slate on 6/29/21

Even with the virus’s recent uptick, the country is still averaging close to its lowest number of daily cases since …