Many markets, industrial sectors, governments, and businesses are still trying to understand when, and if, society and the economy will come to a post-Covid period. Advisory firm FTI Consulting polled lenders in its annual survey and found that they, at least, see an effective end to the pandemic, giving them space to shift toward other plentiful worries.

Even with rising inflation and interest rates, slowing Fed bond purchases, ongoing supply chain issues, and geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and other areas, the lenders expected "relatively benign credit market conditions."

"This represents a shift as COVID-19ʼs future impacts have fallen far down on our respondents' list of concerns," the report stated. "Instead, the focus appears to be if, and when, the U.S. market is no longer propped up by extraordinary federal support measures, will it be dragged down by inflation and supply chain's cold grasp?"